Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression

The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,
    and it will fall on Israel;

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A Vision of a Flying Scroll

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying (A)scroll! And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying (B)scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”[a] Then he said to me, “This is (C)the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who (D)steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who (E)swears falsely[b] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (F)him who swears falsely by my name. And (G)it shall remain in his house and (H)consume it, both timber and stones.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  2. Zechariah 5:3 Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)

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

The Coming Destruction

(E)Hear, you peoples, all of you;[a]
    (F)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and (G)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
    (H)the Lord from his holy temple.
For behold, (I)the Lord is coming out of (J)his place,
    and will come down and (K)tread upon the high places of the earth.
And (L)the mountains will melt under him,
    and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
    like waters poured down a steep place.
All this is for (M)the transgression of Jacob
    and for the sins of the house of Israel.
(N)What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not (O)Samaria?
And what is (P)the high place of Judah?
    Is it not Jerusalem?
Therefore I will make (Q)Samaria (R)a heap in the open country,
    a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones (S)into the valley
    and (T)uncover her foundations.
All (U)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    (V)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from (W)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

(X)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go (Y)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (Z)like the jackals,
    and mourning (AA)like the ostriches.
(AB)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:2 Hebrew all of them

(A)for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the (B)wealth of (C)Damascus and the spoil of (D)Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

The Lord spoke to me again: “Because this people has refused the waters of (E)Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over (F)Rezin and the son of Remaliah, therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them (G)the waters of (H)the River,[a] mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it (I)will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (J)reaching even to the neck, and its (K)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (L)O Immanuel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:7 That is, the Euphrates

thus says the Lord God:

(A)“‘It shall not stand,
    and it shall not come to pass.
For the head of Syria is (B)Damascus,
    and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

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(A)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded (B)my servants the prophets, did they not (C)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, (D)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for (E)our ways and (F)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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