Micah 1-3

New King James Version

Judgment on Israel and Judah

1 The word of the Lord that came to ^(A)Micah of Moresheth in the days of ^(B)Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

The Coming Judgment on Israel

²Hear, all you peoples!
Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!
Let the Lord God be a witness against you,
The Lord from ^(C)His holy temple.

³For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place;
He will come down
And tread on the high places of the earth.
⁴^(D)The mountains will melt under Him,
And the valleys will split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.
⁵All this is for the transgression of Jacob
And for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what are the ^(E)high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?

⁶“Therefore I will make Samaria ^(F)a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will ^(G)uncover her foundations.
⁷All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her ^(H)pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the ^(I)pay of a harlot.”

Mourning for Israel and Judah

⁸Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
^(J)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
⁹For her wounds are incurable.
For ^(K)it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.

¹⁰^(L)Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all;
In ^[a]Beth Aphrah
Roll yourself in the dust.
¹¹Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of ^[b]Shaphir;
The inhabitant of ^[c]Zaanan does not go out.
Beth Ezel mourns;
Its place to stand is taken away from you.

¹²For the inhabitant of ^[d]Maroth ^[e]pined for good,
But ^(M)disaster came down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.
¹³O inhabitant of ^(N)Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were ^(O)found in you.

¹⁴Therefore you shall ^(P)give presents to ^[f]Moresheth Gath;
The houses of ^(Q)Achzib^[g] shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of ^(R)Mareshah;^[h]
The glory of Israel shall come to ^(S)Adullam.^[i]
¹⁶Make yourself ^(T)bald and cut off your hair,
Because of your ^(U)precious children;
Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,
For they shall go from you into ^(V)captivity.

Woe to Evildoers

2 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And ^[j]work out evil on their beds!
At ^(W)morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
²They ^(X)covet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

³Therefore thus says the Lord:

“Behold, against this ^(Y)family I am devising ^(Z)disaster,
From which you cannot remove your necks;
Nor shall you walk haughtily,
For this is an evil time.
⁴In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And ^(AA)lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the ^[k]heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To ^[l]a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”

⁵Therefore you will have no ^[m]one to determine boundaries by lot
In the assembly of the Lord.

Lying Prophets

⁶“Do not prattle,” you say to those who ^[n]prophesy.
So they shall not prophesy ^[o]to you;
^[p]They shall not return insult for insult.
⁷You who are named the house of Jacob:
“Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?
Are these His doings?
Do not My words do good
To him who walks uprightly?

⁸“Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—
You pull off the robe with the garment
From those who trust you, as they pass by,
Like men returned from war.
⁹The women of My people you cast out
From their pleasant houses;
From their children
You have taken away My glory forever.

¹⁰“Arise and depart,
For this is not your ^(AB)rest;
Because it is ^(AC)defiled, it shall destroy,
Yes, with utter destruction.
¹¹If a man should walk in a false spirit
And speak a lie, saying,
‘I will ^[q]prophesy to you ^[r]of wine and drink,’
Even he would be the ^(AD)prattler of this people.

Israel Restored

¹²“I^(AE) will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together ^(AF)like sheep of ^[s]the fold,
Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;
^(AG)They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.
¹³The one who breaks open will come up before them;
They will break out,
Pass through the gate,
And go out by it;
^(AH)Their king will pass before them,
^(AI)With the Lord at their head.”

Wicked Rulers and Prophets

3 And I said:

“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you ^(AJ)rulers of the house of Israel:
^(AK)Is it not for you to know justice?
²You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from ^[t]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
³Who also ^(AL)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
^(AM)Like flesh in the caldron.”

⁴Then ^(AN)they will cry to the Lord,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.

⁵Thus says the Lord ^(AO)concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray;
Who chant ^[u]“Peace”
^[v]While they ^(AP)chew with their teeth,
But who prepare war against him
^(AQ)Who puts nothing into their mouths:
⁶“Therefore^(AR) you shall have night without ^[w]vision,
And you shall have darkness without divination;
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
And the day shall be dark for ^(AS)them.
⁷So the seers shall be ashamed,
And the diviners abashed;
Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
^(AT)For there is no answer from God.”

⁸But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
And of justice and might,
^(AU)To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
⁹Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And ^[x]pervert all equity,
¹⁰^(AV)Who build up Zion with ^(AW)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
¹¹^(AX)Her heads judge for a bribe,
^(AY)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for ^[y]money.
^(AZ)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
¹²Therefore because of you
Zion shall be ^(BA)plowed like a field,
^(BB)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And ^(BC)the mountain of the ^[z]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.

Footnotes

Micah 1:10 Lit. House of Dust
Micah 1:11 Lit. Beautiful
Micah 1:11 Lit. Going Out
Micah 1:12 Lit. Bitterness
Micah 1:12 Lit. was sick
Micah 1:14 Lit. Possession of Gath
Micah 1:14 Lit. Lie
Micah 1:15 Lit. Inheritance
Micah 1:15 Lit. Refuge
Micah 2:1 Plan
Micah 2:4 Lit. portion
Micah 2:4 Lit. one turning back, an apostate
Micah 2:5 Lit. one casting a surveyor’s line
Micah 2:6 Or preach, lit. drip words
Micah 2:6 Lit. to these
Micah 2:6 Vg. He shall not take shame
Micah 2:11 Or preach, lit. drip
Micah 2:11 concerning
Micah 2:12 Heb. Bozrah
Micah 3:2 Lit. them
Micah 3:5 All is well
Micah 3:5 For those who feed them
Micah 3:6 Prophetic revelation
Micah 3:9 Lit. twist
Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Micah 3:12 Lit. house

Psalm 144:9-15

New King James Version

⁹I will ^(A)sing a new song to You, O God;
On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,
¹⁰The One who gives ^[a]salvation to kings,
^(B)Who delivers David His servant
From the deadly sword.

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks lying words,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood—
¹²That our sons may be ^(C)as plants grown up in their youth;
That our daughters may be as ^[b]pillars,
Sculptured in palace style;
¹³That our barns may be full,
Supplying all kinds of produce;
That our sheep may bring forth thousands
And ten thousands in our fields;
¹⁴That our oxen may be well laden;
That there be no ^[c]breaking in or going out;
That there be no outcry in our streets.
¹⁵^(D)Happy are the people who are in such a state;
Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!

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Footnotes

Psalm 144:10 deliverance
Psalm 144:12 corner pillars
Psalm 144:14 Lit. breach

Proverbs 30:10

New King James Version

¹⁰Do not malign a servant to his master,
Lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

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Revelation 9

New King James Version

Fifth Trumpet: The Locusts from the Bottomless Pit

9 Then the fifth angel sounded: ^(A)And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to ^(B)the ^[a]bottomless pit. ²And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the ^(C)sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. ³Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, ^(D)as the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴They were commanded ^(E)not to harm ^(F)the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have ^(G)the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵And ^[b]they were not given authority to kill them, ^(H)but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶In those days ^(I)men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

⁷^(J)The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. ^(K)On their heads were crowns of something like gold, ^(L)and their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸They had hair like women’s hair, and ^(M)their teeth were like lions’ teeth. ⁹And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was ^(N)like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. ¹⁰They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. ¹¹And they had as king over them ^(O)the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is ^[c]Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name ^[d]Apollyon.

¹²^(P)One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.

Sixth Trumpet: The Angels from the Euphrates

¹³Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the ^(Q)golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound ^(R)at the great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a ^(S)third of mankind. ¹⁶Now ^(T)the number of the army ^(U)of the horsemen was two hundred million; ^(V)I heard the number of them. ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; ^(W)and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. ¹⁸By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. ¹⁹For ^[e]their power is in their mouth and in their tails; ^(X)for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.

²⁰But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(Y)did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship ^(Z)demons, ^(AA)and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. ²¹And they did not repent of their murders ^(AB)or their ^[f]sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.