From: "FamilyNet"    
      
   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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