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Bible Reading for July 29

Micah 1
[1] The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria
and Jerusalem.
[2] Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let
the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. [3]
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down,
and tread upon the high places of the earth. [4] And the mountains shall be
molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire,
and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
[5] For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the
house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and
what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem? [6] Therefore I
will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard:
and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will
discover the foundations thereof. [7] And all the graven images thereof
shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with
the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered
it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an
harlot.
[8] Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will
make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. [9] For her
wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of
my people, even to Jerusalem. [10] Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not
at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
[11] Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the
inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall
receive of you his standing.
[12] For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came
down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. [13] O thou inhabitant of
Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the
sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in
thee.
[14] Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of
Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. [15] Yet will I bring an heir
unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory
of Israel. [16] Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children;
enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from
thee.

Micah 2
[1] Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when
the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their
hand.
[2] And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take
them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his
heritage. [3] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do
I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall
ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
[4] In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a
doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the
portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath
divided our fields.
[5] Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the
congregation of the LORD.
[6] Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not
prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. [7] O thou that art named
the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his
doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
[8] Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe
with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
[9] The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses;
from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. [10] Arise ye,
and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall
destroy you, even with a sore destruction. [11] If a man walking in the
spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and
of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
[12] I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the
remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the
flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of
the multitude of men.
[13] The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have
passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass
before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

Micah 3
[1] And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? [2] Who hate the good,
and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh
from off their bones; [3] Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay
their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in
pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
[4] Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will
even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves
ill in their doings.
[5] Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err,
that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into
their mouths, they even prepare war against him. [6] Therefore night shall
be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto
you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets,
and the day shall be dark over them. [7] Then shall the seers be ashamed,
and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for
there is no answer of God. [8] But truly I am full of power by the spirit
of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.
[9] Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of
the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. [10] They
build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. [11] The heads
thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the
prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and
say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. [12] Therefore
shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become
heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Micah 4
[1] But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the
house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it
shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. [2] And
many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of
the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. [3] And he shall judge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall
not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
[4] But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and
none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken
it.
[5] For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will
walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. [6] In that day,
saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her
that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; [7] And I will make her
that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and
the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for
ever.
[8] And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of
Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall
come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
[9] Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy
counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. [10]
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in
travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell
in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be
delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
[11] Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be
defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. [12] But they know not the
thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall
gather them as the sheaves into the floor. [13] Arise and thresh, O
daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy
hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will
consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of
the whole earth.

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