The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:11 (ESV)

Its heads give judgement for a bribe;
its priests teach for a price;
its prophets practise divination for money;
yet they lean on the Lord and say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
No disaster shall come upon us.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 3:12 (ESV)

Therefore because of you
Zion shall be ploughed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:1 (ESV)

It shall come to pass in the latter days
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:2 (ESV)

and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:3 (ESV)

He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:4 (ESV)

but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
and no one shall make them afraid,
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:5 (ESV)

For all the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:6 (ESV)

In that day, declares the Lord,
I will assemble the lame
and gather those who have been driven away
and those whom I have afflicted;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:7 (ESV)

and the lame I will make the remnant,
and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion
from this time forth and forevermore.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:8 (ESV)

And you, O tower of the flock,
hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you shall it come,
the former dominion shall come,
kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:9 (ESV)

Now why do you cry aloud?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished,
that pain seized you like a woman in labor?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:10 (ESV)

Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
there the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:11 (ESV)

Now many nations
are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:12 (ESV)

But they do not know
the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 4:13 (ESV)

O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples;
and shall devote their gain to the Lord,
their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 5:1 (NIV)

Marshal your troops now, city of troops,
for a siege is laid against us.
They will strike Israel’s ruler
on the cheek with a rod.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 5:2 (NIV)

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans[b] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 5:3 (NIV)

Therefore Israel will be abandoned
until the time when she who is in labor bears a son,
and the rest of his brothers return
to join the Israelites.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 5:4 (NIV)

He will stand and shepherd his flock
in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they will live securely, for then his greatness
will reach to the ends of the earth.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 5:5 (NIV)

And he will be our peace
when the Assyrians invade our land
and march through our fortresses.
We will raise against them seven shepherds,
even eight commanders,