Hello and welcome back
to "His Words Are Life."
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I am Kelly Mowrer
and today we will be
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reading together
from the Book of Micah.
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But first let's pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
thank you for loving us.
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Thank you for sending
Your Son to die for us
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and thank you for
sending Your word to guide us.
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Please now may the
Holy Spirit bring this truth
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into our hearts in a
real and life changing way.
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I pray in the
name of Jesus, amen.
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We are picking up in
Micah Chapter 1, verse 7.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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"And all the
graven images thereof
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shall be beaten to pieces,
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and all the hires thereof
shall be burned with the fire,
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and all the idols
thereof will I lay desolate,
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for she gathered it
of the hire of an harlot,
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and they shall return
to the hire of an harlot.
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Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked,
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I will make a
wailing like the dragons,
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and mourning as the owls.
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For her wound is incurable,
for it is come unto Judah,
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he is come unto the gate of
my people, even to Jerusalem.
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Declare ye it not at
Gath, weep ye not at all,
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in the house of Aphrah
roll thyself in the dust.
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Pass ye away, thou
inhabitant of Saphir,
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having thy shame naked,
the inhabitant of Zaanan
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came not forth in
the mourning of Bethezel,
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he shall receive
of you his standing.
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For the inhabitant of Maroth
waited carefully for good,
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but evil came down from the
Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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O thou inhabitant of Lachish,
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bind the chariot
to the swift beast,
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she is the beginning of the
sin to the daughter of Zion,
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for the transgressions of
Israel were found in thee.
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Therefore shalt thou give
presents to Moreshethgath,
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the houses of Achzib shall
be a lie to the kings of Israel.
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Yet will I bring
an heir unto thee,
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O inhabitant of Mareshah,
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he shall come unto
Adullam the glory of Israel.
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Make thee bald, and poll
thee for thy delicate children,
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enlarge thy
baldness as the eagle,
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for they are gone
into captivity from thee.
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Continuing in the
Book of Micah, Chapter 2.
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This is the King James Version.
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Woe to them
that devise iniquity,
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and work evil upon their beds!
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When the morning is
light, they practice it,
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because it is in
the power of their hand.
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And they covet fields,
and take them by violence,
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and houses, and take them away,
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so they oppress a
man and his house,
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even a man and his heritage.
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord, Behold,
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against this family
do I devise an evil,
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from which ye shall
not remove your necks,
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neither shall ye go haughtily,
for this time is evil.
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In that day shall one
take up a parable against you,
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and lament with a
doleful lamentation,
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and say, we be utterly spoiled,
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he hath changed the
portion of my people,
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how hath he removed it from me!
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Turning away he
hath divided our fields.
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Therefore thou
shalt have none that
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shall cast a cord by lot in
the congregation of the Lord.
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Prophesy ye not, say
they to them that prophesy,
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they shall not prophesy to them,
that they shall not take shame.
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O thou that art
named the house of Jacob,
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is the spirit of
the Lord straitened?
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Are these his doings?
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do not my words do good to
him that walketh uprightly?
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Even of late my people
is risen up as an enemy,
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ye pull off the robe
with the garment from them
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that pass by securely
as men averse from war.
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The women of my
people have ye cast out
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from their pleasant
houses, from their children
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have ye taken
away my glory forever.
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Arise ye, and depart,
for this is not your rest,
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because it is
polluted, it shall destroy you,
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even with a sore destruction.
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If a man walking in the
spirit and falsehood do lie,
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saying, I will
prophesy unto thee of wine
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and of strong
drink, he shall even be
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the prophet of this people.
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I will surely
assemble, O Jacob, all of thee,
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I will surely gather
the remnant of Israel,
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I will put them
together as the sheep of Bozrah,
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as the flock in the
midst of their fold,
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they shall make great noise by
reason of the multitude of men.
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The breaker is
come up before them,
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they have broken up, and
have passed through the gate,
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and are gone out by it,
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and their king
shall pass before them,
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and the Lord come
on the head of them."
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Continuing in
Chapter 3 of Micah.
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This is the King James Version.
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"And I said, Hear, I
pray you, O heads of Jacob,
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and ye princes of
the house of Israel,
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Is it not for
you to know judgment?
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Who hate the
good, and love the evil,
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who pluck off
their skin from off them,
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and their flesh
from off their bones,
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Who also eat the
flesh of my people,
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and flay their
skin from off them,
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and they break their
bones, and chop them in pieces,
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as for the pot, and as
flesh within the caldron.
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Then shall they
cry unto the Lord,
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but he will not hear them,
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he will even hide his
face from them at that time,
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as they have behaved
themselves ill in their doings.
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Thus saith the Lord concerning
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the prophets that
make my people err,
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that bite with their
teeth, and cry, Peace,
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and he that putteth
not into their mouths,
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they even
prepare war against him.
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Therefore night
shall be unto you,
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that ye shall not have a vision,
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and it shall be dark unto
you, that ye shall not divine,
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and the sun shall go
down over the prophets,
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and the day shall
be dark over them.
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Then shall the seers be ashamed,
and the diviners confounded,
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yea, they shall
all cover their lips,
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for there is no answer of God.
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But truly I am full of
power by the spirit of the Lord,
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and of judgment, and of might,
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to declare unto
Jacob his transgression,
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and to Israel his sin.
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Hear this, I pray you, ye
heads of the house of Jacob,
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and princes of
the house of Israel,
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that abhor judgment,
and pervert all equity.
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They build up Zion with blood,
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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The heads
thereof judge for reward,
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and the priests
thereof teach for hire,
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and the prophets
thereof divine for money,
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yet will they lean
upon the Lord, and say,
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Is not the Lord among us?
None evil can come upon us.
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Therefore shall Zion for
your sake be plowed as a field,
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and Jerusalem
shall become heaps,
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and the mountain of the house
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as the high
places of the forest."
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Continuing in the
Book of Micah, Chapter 4.
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This is the King James Version.
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"But in the last days
it shall come to pass,
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that the mountain of
the house of the Lord
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shall be established in
the top of the mountains,
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and it shall be
exalted above the hills,
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and people shall flow unto it.
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And many nations
shall come, and say,
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Come, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord,
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and to the house
of the God of Jacob,
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and he will
teach us of his ways,
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and we will walk in his paths,
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for the law
shall go forth of Zion,
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and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem.
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And he shall
judge among many people,
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and rebuke
strong nations afar off,
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and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares,
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and their spears
into pruning hooks,
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nation shall not lift
up a sword against nation,
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neither shall they
learn war any more.
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But they shall sit
every man under his vine
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and under his fig tree, and
none shall make them afraid,
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for the mouth of the
Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
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For all people
will walk every one
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in the name of his God,
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and we will walk in
the name of the Lord
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our God forever and ever.
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In that day, saith the Lord,
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will I assemble
her that halteth,
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and I will gather
her that is driven out,
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and her that I have afflicted,
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And I will make her
that halted a remnant,
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and her that was cast
far off a strong nation,
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and the Lord
shall reign over them
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in mount Zion from
henceforth, even for ever.
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And thou, O tower of the flock,
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the strong hold of
the daughter of Zion,
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unto thee shall it
come, even the first dominion,
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the kingdom shall come to
the daughter of Jerusalem.
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Now why dost thou cry out aloud?
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Is there no king in thee?
Is thy counselor perished?
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For pangs have taken
thee as a woman in travail.
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Be in pain, and
labor to bring forth,
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O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in travail,
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for now shalt thou go
forth out of the city,
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and thou shalt
dwell in the field,
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and thou shalt
go even to Babylon,
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there shalt thou be delivered,
there the Lord shall redeem thee
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from the hand of thine enemies.
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Now also many nations
are gathered against thee,
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that say, Let her be defiled,
and let our eye look upon Zion.
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But they know not
the thoughts of the Lord,
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neither
understand they his counsel,
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for he shall gather them
as the sheaves into the floor.
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Arise and thresh,
O daughter of Zion,
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for I will make thine horn iron,
and I will make thy hoofs brass,
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and thou shalt beat
in pieces many people,
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and I will consecrate
their gain unto the Lord,
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and their substance unto
the Lord of the whole earth."
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Continuing in the
Book of Micah, Chapter 5.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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"Now gather thyself in troops,
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O daughter of troops, he
hath laid siege against us,
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they shall smite
the judge of Israel
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with a rod upon the cheek.
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But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,
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though thou be little
among the thousands of Judah,
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yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me
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that is to be ruler in Israel,
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whose goings forth have been
from of old, from everlasting.
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Therefore will he give them up,
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until the time that she which
travaileth hath brought forth,
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then the remnant of
his brethren shall return
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unto the children of Israel.
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And he shall stand and feed
in the strength of the Lord,
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in the majesty of the
name of the Lord his God,
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and they shall abide,
for now shall he be great
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unto the ends of the earth.
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And this man shall be the peace,
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when the Assyrian
shall come into our land,
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and when he shall
tread in our palaces,
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then shall we raise against him
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seven shepherds,
and eight principal men.
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And they shall waste the
land of Assyria with the sword,
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and the land of Nimrod
in the entrances thereof,
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thus shall he
deliver us from the Assyrian,
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when he cometh into our land,
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and when he
treadeth within our borders.
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And the remnant
of Jacob shall be
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in the midst of many
people as a dew from the Lord,
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as the showers upon the grass,
that tarrieth not for man,
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nor waiteth for the sons of men.
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And the remnant
of Jacob shall be
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among the Gentiles in
the midst of many people
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as a lion among the
beasts of the forest,
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as a young lion
among the flocks of sheep,
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who, if he go
through, both treadeth down,
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and teareth in
pieces, and none can deliver.
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Thine hand shall be lifted
up upon thine adversaries,
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and all thine
enemies shall be cut off.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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saith the Lord, that I
will cut off thy horses
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out of the midst of thee,
and I will destroy thy chariots.
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And I will cut off
the cities of thy land,
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and throw down
all thy strong holds.
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And I will cut off
witchcrafts out of thine hand,
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and thou shalt have
no more soothsayers.
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Thy graven images
also will I cut off,
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and thy standing images
out of the midst of thee,
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and thou shalt no more
worship the work of thine hands.
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And I will pluck up thy
groves out of the midst of thee,
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so will I destroy thy cities.
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And I will
execute vengeance in anger
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and fury upon the heathen,
such as they have not heard.
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Continuing with
Micah, Chapter 6.
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Hear ye now what
the Lord saith, Arise,
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contend thou
before the mountains,
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and let the
hills hear thy voice.
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Hear ye, O mountains,
the Lord's controversy,
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and ye strong
foundations of the earth,
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for the Lord hath a
controversy with his people,
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and he will plead with Israel."
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