Micah 6-7

New King James Version

God Pleads with Israel

6 Hear now what the Lord says:

“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
And let the hills hear your voice.
²^(A)Hear, O you mountains, ^(B)the Lord’s complaint,
And you strong foundations of the earth;
For ^(C)the Lord has a complaint against His people,
And He will ^[a]contend with Israel.

³“O My people, what ^(D)have I done to you?
And how have I ^(E)wearied you?
Testify against Me.
⁴^(F)For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
I redeemed you from the house of bondage;
And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
⁵O My people, remember now
What ^(G)Balak king of Moab counseled,
And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
From ^[b]Acacia Grove to Gilgal,
That you may know ^(H)the righteousness of the Lord.”

⁶With what shall I come before the Lord,
And bow myself before the High God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With calves a year old?
⁷^(I)Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand ^(J)rivers of oil?
^(K)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
^[c]The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸He has ^(L)shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But ^(M)to do justly,
To love ^[d]mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?

Punishment of Israel’s Injustice

⁹The Lord’s voice cries to the city—
Wisdom shall see Your name:

“Hear the rod!
Who has appointed it?
¹⁰Are there yet the treasures of wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And the short measure that is an abomination?
¹¹Shall I count pure those with ^(N)the wicked scales,
And with the bag of deceitful weights?
¹²For her rich men are full of ^(O)violence,
Her inhabitants have spoken lies,
And ^(P)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹³“Therefore I will also ^(Q)make you sick by striking you,
By making you desolate because of your sins.
¹⁴^(R)You shall eat, but not be satisfied;
^[e]Hunger shall be in your midst.
You may carry some away,^[f] but shall not save them;
And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.

¹⁵“You shall ^(S)sow, but not reap;
You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
And make sweet wine, but not drink wine.
¹⁶For the statutes of ^(T)Omri are ^(U)kept;
All the works of Ahab’s house are done;
And you walk in their counsels,
That I may make you a ^[g]desolation,
And your inhabitants a hissing.
Therefore you shall bear the ^(V)reproach of ^[h]My people.”

Sorrow for Israel’s Sins

7 Woe is me!
For I am like those who gather summer fruits,
Like those who ^(W)glean vintage grapes;
There is no cluster to eat
Of the first-ripe fruit which ^(X)my soul desires.
²The ^(Y)faithful^[i] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
^(Z)Every man hunts his brother with a net.

³That they may successfully do evil with both hands—
The prince asks for gifts,
The judge seeks a ^(AA)bribe,
And the great man utters his evil desire;
So they scheme together.
⁴The best of them is ^(AB)like a brier;
The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge;
The day of your watchman and your punishment comes;
Now shall be their perplexity.

⁵^(AC)Do not trust in a friend;
Do not put your confidence in a companion;
Guard the doors of your mouth
From her who lies in your ^(AD)bosom.
⁶For ^(AE)son dishonors father,
Daughter rises against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
A man’s enemies are the men of his own household.
⁷Therefore I will look to the Lord;
I will ^(AF)wait for the God of my salvation;
My God will hear me.

Israel’s Confession and Comfort

⁸^(AG)Do not rejoice over me, my enemy;
^(AH)When I fall, I will arise;
When I sit in darkness,
The Lord will be a light to me.
⁹^(AI)I will bear the indignation of the Lord,
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my ^(AJ)case
And executes justice for me.
He will bring me forth to the light;
I will see His righteousness.
¹⁰Then she who is my enemy will see,
And ^(AK)shame will cover her who said to me,
^(AL)“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will see her;
Now she will be trampled down
Like mud in the streets.

¹¹In the day when your ^(AM)walls are to be built,
In that day ^[j]the decree shall go far and wide.
¹²In that day ^(AN)they^[k] shall come to you
From Assyria and the ^[l]fortified cities,
From the ^[m]fortress to ^[n]the River,
From sea to sea,
And mountain to mountain.
¹³Yet the land shall be desolate
Because of those who dwell in it,
And ^(AO)for the fruit of their deeds.

God Will Forgive Israel

¹⁴Shepherd Your people with Your staff,
The flock of Your heritage,
Who dwell ^[o]solitarily in a ^(AP)woodland,
In the midst of Carmel;
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
As in days of old.

¹⁵“As^(AQ) in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show ^[p]them ^(AR)wonders.”

¹⁶The nations ^(AS)shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
^(AT)They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.
¹⁷They shall lick the ^(AU)dust like a serpent;
^(AV)They shall crawl from their holes like ^[q]snakes of the earth.
^(AW)They shall be afraid of the Lord our God,
And shall fear because of You.
¹⁸^(AX)Who is a God like You,
^(AY)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of ^(AZ)the remnant of His heritage?

^(BA)He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in ^(BB)mercy.^[r]
¹⁹He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.

You will cast all ^[s]our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
²⁰^(BC)You will give truth to Jacob
And ^[t]mercy to Abraham,
^(BD)Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.

Footnotes

Micah 6:2 bring charges against
Micah 6:5 Heb. Shittim, Num. 25:1; Josh. 2:1; 3:1
Micah 6:7 My own child
Micah 6:8 Or lovingkindness
Micah 6:14 Or Emptiness or Humiliation
Micah 6:14 Tg., Vg. You shall take hold
Micah 6:16 Or object of horror
Micah 6:16 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX nations
Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 7:11 Or the boundary shall be extended
Micah 7:12 Lit. he, collective of the captives
Micah 7:12 Heb. arey mazor, possibly cities of Egypt
Micah 7:12 Heb. mazor, possibly Egypt
Micah 7:12 The Euphrates
Micah 7:14 Alone
Micah 7:15 Lit. him, collective for the captives
Micah 7:17 Lit. crawlers
Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
Micah 7:19 Lit. their
Micah 7:20 Or lovingkindness

Revelation 13

New King James Version

The Beast from the Sea

13 Then ^[a]I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw ^(A)a beast rising up out of the sea, ^(B)having ^[b]seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a ^(C)blasphemous name. ²Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The ^(D)dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. ³And I saw one of his heads ^(E)as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And ^(F)all the world marveled and followed the beast. ⁴So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, ^(G)“Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

⁵And he was given ^(H)a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to ^[c]continue for ^(I)forty-two months. ⁶Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, ^(J)His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. ⁷It was granted to him ^(K)to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And ^(L)authority was given him over every ^[d]tribe, tongue, and nation. ⁸All who dwell on the earth will worship him, ^(M)whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain ^(N)from the foundation of the world.

⁹^(O)If anyone has an ear, let him hear. ¹⁰^(P)He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; ^(Q)he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. ^(R)Here is the ^[e]patience and the faith of the saints.

The Beast from the Earth

¹¹Then I saw another beast ^(S)coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. ¹²And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, ^(T)whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³^(U)He performs great signs, ^(V)so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴^(W)And he deceives ^[f]those who dwell on the earth ^(X)by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword ^(Y)and lived. ¹⁵He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak ^(Z)and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. ¹⁶He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, ^(AA)to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷and that no one may buy or sell except one who has ^[g]the mark or ^(AB)the name of the beast, ^(AC)or the number of his name.

¹⁸^(AD)Here is wisdom. Let him who has ^(AE)understanding calculate ^(AF)the number of the beast, ^(AG)for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.