1What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster of grapes to eat, none of the early figs that I crave. 2The godly have been swept from the land; not one upright man remains. All men l...
1Listen to what the Lord says: Stand up, plead your case before the mountains; let the hills hear what you have to say. 2Hear, O mountains, the Lord 's accusation; listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against his...
1Marshal your troops, O city of troops, for a siege is laid against us. They will strike Israel's ruler on the cheek with a rod. 2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will b...
1In the last days the mountain of the Lord 's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. 2Many nations will come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord...
1Then I said, Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice, 2you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones; 3who eat my people's flesh, strip off thei...
1Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. 2They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowm...
1The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah-the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. 2Hear, O peoples, all of you, listen, O earth and all who are in it, that the So...
