The One Year Bible KJV (347 page)

Micah 1:1–4:13

1
 The word of the L
ORD
that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz,
and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

2
 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord G
OD
be witness against you, the L
ORD
from his holy temple.

3
 For, behold, the L
ORD
cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

4
 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire,
and
as the waters
that are
poured down a steep place.

5
 For the transgression of Jacob
is
all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What
is
the transgression of Jacob?
is it
not Samaria? and what
are
the high places of Judah?
are they
not Jerusalem?

6
 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field,
and
as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

7
 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered
it
of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

8
 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

9
 For her wound
is
incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people,
even
to Jerusalem.

10
 Declare ye
it
not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

11
 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

12
 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the L
ORD
unto the gate of Jerusalem.

13
 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she
is
the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

14
 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib
shall be
a lie to the kings of Israel.

15
 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

16
 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

2:
1
 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

2
 And they covet fields, and take
them
by violence; and houses, and take
them
away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

3
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time
is
evil.

4
 In that day shall
one
take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation,
and
say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed
it
from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

5
 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the L
ORD
.

6
 Prophesy ye not,
say they to them that
prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them,
that
they shall not take shame.

7
 O
thou that art
named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the L
ORD
straitened?
are
these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

8
 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

9
 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

10
 Arise ye, and depart; for this
is
not
your
rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy
you,
even with a sore destruction.

11
 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,
saying,
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

12
 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of
the multitude of
men.

13
 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the L
ORD
on the head of them.

3:
1
 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel;
Is it
not for you to know judgment?

2
 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

3
 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

4
 Then shall they cry unto the L
ORD
, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

5
 Thus saith the L
ORD
concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

6
 Therefore night
shall be
unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

7
 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for
there is
no answer of God.

8
 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the L
ORD
, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

9
 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

10
 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11
 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the L
ORD
, and say,
Is
not the L
ORD
among us? none evil can come upon us.

12
 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed
as
a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

4:
1
 But in the last days it shall come to pass,
that
the mountain of the house of the L
ORD
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

2
 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the L
ORD
, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the L
ORD
from Jerusalem.

3
 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

4
 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make
them
afraid: for the mouth of the L
ORD
of hosts hath spoken
it.

5
 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the L
ORD
our God for ever and ever.

6
 In that day, saith the L
ORD
, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

7
 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the L
ORD
shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

8
 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

9
 Now why dost thou cry out aloud?
is there
no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

10
 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go
even
to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the L
ORD
shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

11
 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

12
 But they know not the thoughts of the L
ORD
, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

13
 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the L
ORD
, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Revelation 6:1-17

1
 And I [John] saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2
 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

3
 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4
 And there went out another horse
that was
red: and
power
was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

5
 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6
 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and
see
thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

7
 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8
 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

9
 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10
 and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11
 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they
were,
should be fulfilled.

12
 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13
 and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14
 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15
 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16
 and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17
 for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?