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Micah 6:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house have been observed; you have followed their policies. Therefore, I will make you a desolate place and the city’s  residents an object of contempt;  , you will bear the scorn of my people.’  ,

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We are ashamed because we have heard insults. Humiliation covers our faces because foreigners have entered the holy places of the  Lord’s temple.


Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention,  but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backwards and not forwards.


I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.


When he has swallowed up death once and for all, the Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face and remove his people’s disgrace from the whole earth, for the Lord has spoken.


But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel,   who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.


Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgement, for he is determined to follow what is worthless.


Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, may your anger and wrath  turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain;  for because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.


They will feel remorse for  , their disgrace  and all the unfaithfulness they committed against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to frighten them.


Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!


I am going to send for all the families of the north”   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror  and scorn, and ruins for ever.


The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.


because they have abandoned me  and burned incense to other gods so as to anger me with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.”


He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed  and re-established the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah,  as King Ahab of Israel had done;  he also bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky  and served them.


but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.  He even sacrificed his son in the fire,  imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.


and took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel  slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.


Though this temple is now exalted,  everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff.  They will say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’


Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing #– #as it is today;


I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth #– #a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations  where I have banished them.


Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.


‘Abandon your preaching,’  they   preach. ‘They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us.’  ,


‘As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,  , bringing desolation because of your sins.


So he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after the death of his father, to his destruction.





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