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Micah 1

 ² Hear, O peoples, all of you,
       listen, O earth and all who are in it,
       that the Sovereign LORD may witness against you,
       the Lord from his holy temple.

Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem

 ⁴ The mountains melt beneath him
       and the valleys split apart,
       like wax before the fire,
       like water rushing down a slope.

 ⁵ All this is because of Jacob's transgression,
       because of the sins of the house of Israel.
       What is Jacob's transgression?
       Is it not Samaria?
       What is Judah's high place?
       Is it not Jerusalem?

 ⁶ "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,
       a place for planting vineyards.
       I will pour her stones into the valley
       and lay bare her foundations.

 ⁷ All her idols will be broken to pieces;
       all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;
       I will destroy all her images.
       Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,
       as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used."

Weeping and Mourning

 ⁹ For her wound is incurable;
       it has come to Judah.
       It ^[a] has reached the very gate of my people,
       even to Jerusalem itself.

 ¹⁰ Tell it not in Gath ^[b] ;
       weep not at all. ^[c]
       In Beth Ophrah ^[d]
       roll in the dust.

 ¹¹ Pass on in nakedness and shame,
       you who live in Shaphir. ^[e]
       Those who live in Zaanan ^[f]
       will not come out.
       Beth Ezel is in mourning;
       its protection is taken from you.

 ¹² Those who live in Maroth ^[g] writhe in pain,
       waiting for relief,
       because disaster has come from the LORD,
       even to the gate of Jerusalem.

 ¹³ You who live in Lachish, ^[h]
       harness the team to the chariot.
       You were the beginning of sin
       to the Daughter of Zion,
       for the transgressions of Israel
       were found in you.

 ¹⁴ Therefore you will give parting gifts
       to Moresheth Gath.
       The town of Aczib ^[i] will prove deceptive
       to the kings of Israel.

 ¹⁵ I will bring a conqueror against you
       who live in Mareshah. ^[j]
       He who is the glory of Israel
       will come to Adullam.

 ¹⁶ Shave your heads in mourning
       for the children in whom you delight;
       make yourselves as bald as the vulture,
       for they will go from you into exile.

Micah 2

Man's Plans and God's

 ² They covet fields and seize them,
       and houses, and take them.
       They defraud a man of his home,
       a fellowman of his inheritance.

 ³ Therefore, the LORD says:
       "I am planning disaster against this people,
       from which you cannot save yourselves.
       You will no longer walk proudly,
       for it will be a time of calamity.

 ⁴ In that day men will ridicule you;
       they will taunt you with this mournful song:
       'We are utterly ruined;
       my people's possession is divided up.
       He takes it from me!
       He assigns our fields to traitors.' "

 ⁵ Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD
       to divide the land by lot.

False Prophets

 ⁷ Should it be said, O house of Jacob:
       "Is the Spirit of the LORD angry?
       Does he do such things?"
       "Do not my words do good
       to him whose ways are upright?

 ⁸ Lately my people have risen up
       like an enemy.
       You strip off the rich robe
       from those who pass by without a care,
       like men returning from battle.

 ⁹ You drive the women of my people
       from their pleasant homes.
       You take away my blessing
       from their children forever.

 ¹⁰ Get up, go away!
       For this is not your resting place,
       because it is defiled,
       it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

 ¹¹ If a liar and deceiver comes and says,
       'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,'
       he would be just the prophet for this people!

Deliverance Promised

 ¹³ One who breaks open the way will go up before them;
       they will break through the gate and go out.
       Their king will pass through before them,
       the LORD at their head."

Micah 3

Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

 ² you who hate good and love evil;
       who tear the skin from my people
       and the flesh from their bones;

 ³ who eat my people's flesh,
       strip off their skin
       and break their bones in pieces;
       who chop them up like meat for the pan,
       like flesh for the pot?"

 ⁴ Then they will cry out to the LORD,
       but he will not answer them.
       At that time he will hide his face from them
       because of the evil they have done.

 ⁵ This is what the LORD says:
       "As for the prophets
       who lead my people astray,
       if one feeds them,
       they proclaim 'peace';
       if he does not,
       they prepare to wage war against him.

 ⁶ Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
       and darkness, without divination.
       The sun will set for the prophets,
       and the day will go dark for them.

 ⁷ The seers will be ashamed
       and the diviners disgraced.
       They will all cover their faces
       because there is no answer from God."

 ⁸ But as for me, I am filled with power,
       with the Spirit of the LORD,
       and with justice and might,
       to declare to Jacob his transgression,
       to Israel his sin.

 ⁹ Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob,
       you rulers of the house of Israel,
       who despise justice
       and distort all that is right;

 ¹⁰ who build Zion with bloodshed,
       and Jerusalem with wickedness.

 ¹¹ Her leaders judge for a bribe,
       her priests teach for a price,
       and her prophets tell fortunes for money.
       Yet they lean upon the LORD and say,
       "Is not the LORD among us?
       No disaster will come upon us."

 ¹² Therefore because of you,
       Zion will be plowed like a field,
       Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
       the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

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Revelation 11

The Two Witnesses

 ⁷Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. ⁸Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. ⁹For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. ¹⁰The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

 ¹¹But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. ¹²Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

 ¹³At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

 ¹⁴The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

The Seventh Trumpet

 ¹⁹Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.