Woe! sons forsakers, saith the Lord, that ye shall make a counsel, and not of me; and weave a web, and not by my spirit, that ye should increase sin on sin.
Forsooth thou art our father, and Abraham knew not us, and Israel knew not us. Thou, Lord, art our father, and our again-buyer; thy name is from the world.
They shall come in weeping, and I shall bring them again in mercy; and I shall bring them by the strands [or streams] of waters in a rightful [or right] way, they shall not spurn therein; for I am made a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my engendered son.
And thou shalt say by a proverb a parable to the house of Israel, stirrer to wrath, and thou shalt speak to them, The Lord God saith these things, Set thou a brazen pot, set thou it soothly, and put thou water into it.
therefore, hills of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord God. The Lord God saith these things to the mountains, and little hills, to strands [or streams], and to valleys, and to pieces of walls left, and to cities forsaken, that be made bare of peoples, and be scorned of other folks by compass.
The word of the Lord, which was made to Micah the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah; which word he saw on Samaria and Jerusalem.
Nevertheless I am filled with strength of the Spirit of the Lord, and with doom and power, that I show to Jacob his great trespass, and to Israel his sin.
The son honoureth the father, and the servant shall dread his lord; therefore if I am the father, where is mine honour? and if I am the lord, where is my dread? saith the Lord of hosts. A! ye priests, to you that despise my name; and ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
And ye saw in the wilderness, thy Lord God bare thee, as a man is wont to bear his little son, in all the way by which ye went, till ye came to this place.
I call today heaven and earth to witness, that is, angels and men, that I have set forth to you life and death, good and evil, blessing and cursing; therefore choose thou life, that both thou live and thy seed,
I call witness today heaven and earth, that ye shall perish soon from the land, that ye shall wield, when ye have passed over Jordan; ye shall not live long time therein, but the Lord shall do away you,