Nevi'im
Mikhah1
Micah · Chapter 1
The word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz,
and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Yerushalayim.
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) be witness against you, the master from his holy heikhal.
For, behold, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
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.
For the transgression of Ya'aqov
is all this, and for the sins of the house of Yisra'el. What
is the transgression of Ya'aqov?
is it
not Samaria? and what
are the high places of Judah?
are they not Yerushalayim?
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.
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.
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.
For her wound
is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people,
even to Yerushalayim.
Declare ye
it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
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.
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) unto the gate of Yerushalayim.
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she
is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Tsiyon: for the transgressions of Yisra'el were found in thee.
Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib
shall be a lie to the kings of Yisra'el.
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Yisra'el.
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Nevi'im
Mikhah2
Micah · Chapter 2
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.
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.
Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); 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.
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.
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Prophesy ye not,
say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them,
that they shall not take shame.
O
thou that art named the house of Ya'aqov, is the spirit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) straitened?
are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
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.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Arise ye, and depart; for this
is not
your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy
you, even with a sore destruction.
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 navi of this people.
I will surely assemble, O Ya'aqov, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Yisra'el; 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.
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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) on the head of them.
Nevi'im
Mikhah3
Micah · Chapter 3
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Ya'aqov, and ye princes of the house of Yisra'el;
Is it not for you to know judgment?
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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.
Then shall they cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), 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.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) concerning the nevi'im 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.
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 nevi'im, and the day shall be dark over them.
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for
there is no answer of Elohim.
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Ya'aqov his transgression, and to Yisra'el his sin.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Ya'aqov, and princes of the house of Yisra'el, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
They build up Tsiyon with blood, and Yerushalayim with iniquity.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the kohanim thereof teach for hire, and the nevi'im thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and say,
Is not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) among us? none evil can come upon us.
Therefore shall Tsiyon for your sake be plowed
as a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.