The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Micah 6:11 (NIV)

Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,
with a bag of false weights?

 

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Micah 6:12 (NIV)

Your rich people are violent;
your inhabitants are liars
and their tongues speak deceitfully.

 

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Micah 6:13 (NIV)

Therefore, I have begun to destroy you,
to ruin you because of your sins.

 

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Micah 6:14 (NIV)

You will eat but not be satisfied;
your stomach will still be empty.
You will store up but save nothing,
because what you save I will give to the sword.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 6:15 (NIV)

You will plant but not harvest;
you will press olives but not use the oil,
you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 6:16 (NIV)

You have observed the statutes of Omri
and all the practices of Ahab’s house;
you have followed their traditions.
Therefore I will give you over to ruin
and your people to derision;
you will bear the scorn of the nations.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:1 (NIV)

What misery is mine!
I am like one who gathers summer fruit
at the gleaning of the vineyard;
there is no cluster of grapes to eat,
none of the early figs that I crave.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:2 (NIV)

The faithful have been swept from the land;
not one upright person remains.
Everyone lies in wait to shed blood;
they hunt each other with nets.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:3 (NIV)

Both hands are skilled in doing evil;
the ruler demands gifts,
the judge accepts bribes,
the powerful dictate what they desire –
they all conspire together.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:4 (NIV)

The best of them is like a brier,
the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.
The day God visits you has come,
the day your watchmen sound the alarm.
Now is the time of your confusion.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:5 (NIV)

Do not trust a neighbour;
put no confidence in a friend.
Even with the woman who lies in your embrace
guard the words of your lips.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:6 (NIV)

For a son dishonours his father,
a daughter rises up against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law –
a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:7 (NIV)

But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord,
I wait for God my Saviour;
my God will hear me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:8 (NIV)

Do not gloat over me, my enemy!
Though I have fallen, I will rise.
Though I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be my light.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:9 (NIV)

Because I have sinned against him,
I will bear the Lord’s wrath,
until he pleads my case
and upholds my cause.
He will bring me out into the light;
I will see his righteousness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:10 (NIV)

Then my enemy will see it
and will be covered with shame,
she who said to me,
‘Where is the Lord your God?’
My eyes will see her downfall;
even now she will be trampled underfoot
like mire in the streets.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:11 (NIV)

The day for building your walls will come,
the day for extending your boundaries.

 

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Micah 7:12 (NIV)

In that day people will come to you
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates
and from sea to sea
and from mountain to mountain.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Micah 7:13 (NIV)

The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
as the result of their deeds.

 

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Micah 7:14 (NIV)

Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
which lives by itself in a forest,
in fertile pasture-lands.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
as in days long ago