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Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
