There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, It is for Sha'ul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Giv`onim.
Micah 6:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The LORD's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: *Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The voice of the Lord calls to the city [Jerusalem]–and it is sound wisdom to hear and fear Your name–Hear (heed) the rod and Him Who has appointed it. American Standard Version (1901) The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. Common English Bible The voice of the LORD calls out to the city; wisdom appears when one fears your name. Hear, tribe, and who appointed her! Catholic Public Domain Version The voice of the Lord cries out to the city, "Listen, you tribes," and who will confirm it? And salvation will be for those who fear your name. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear, O ye tribes, and who shall approve it? |
There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, It is for Sha'ul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Giv`onim.
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.
*Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.
As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Elyon over all the earth.
The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
The LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renders recompense to his enemies.
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the LORD of Armies.
Mikhah the Morashti prophesied in the days of Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah; and he spoke to all the people of Yehudah, saying, Thus says the LORD of Armies: Tziyon shall be plowed as a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
How can you be quiet, seeing the LORD has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.
My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, the LORD, do strike.
Shomron will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.*
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
But I will send a fire on Yehudah, and it will devour the palaces of Yerushalayim.*
Woe to those who are at ease in Tziyon, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Shomron, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra'el come!
Therefore Tziyon for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Yerushalayim will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short efah that is accursed?
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in the LORD. She didn't draw near to her God.
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.