Today’s
Reading : Micah 1- 4 and Mark
1 (KJV)
Micah 1
Mic 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham,
Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Mic 1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and
all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from
his holy temple.
Mic 1:3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his
place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Mic 1:4 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.
Mic 1:5 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?
Mic 1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a 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.
Mic 1:7 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 a harlot, and they shall return
to the hire of a harlot.
Mic 1:8 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.
Mic 1:9 For her wound is
incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Mic 1:10 Declare ye it
not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah
roll thyself in the dust.
Mic 1:11 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.
Mic 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth
waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of
Jerusalem.
Mic 1:13 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.
Mic 1:14 Therefore shalt
thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
Mic 1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O
inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
Mic 1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy
delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into
captivity from thee.
Micah 2
Mic 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work
evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it
is in the power of their hand.
Mic 2:2 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.
Mic 2:3 Therefore thus saith
the LORD; 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.
Mic 2:4 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.
Mic 2:5 Therefore thou shalt
have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Mic 2:6 Prophesy ye not, say
they to
them that
prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that
they shall not take shame.
Mic 2:7 O thou
that art
named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to
him that walketh uprightly?
Mic 2:8 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.
Mic 2:9 The women of my people have ye cast out from
their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory forever.
Mic 2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your
rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you,
even with a sore destruction.
Mic 2:11 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.
Mic 2:12 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.
Mic 2:13 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 LORD on the head of them.
Micah 3
Mic 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?
Mic 3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who
pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Mic 3:3 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.
Mic 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, 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.
Mic 3:5 Thus saith the LORD
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.
Mic 3:6 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.
Mic 3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the
diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is
no answer of God.
Mic 3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of
the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression,
and to Israel his sin.
Mic 3:9 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.
Mic 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem
with iniquity.
Mic 3:11 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 LORD, and say, Is
not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Mic 3:12 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.
Micah 4
Mic 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall
be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the
hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Mic 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, 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 LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:3 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 pruning hooks: nation
shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more.
Mic 4:4 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 LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
Mic 4:5 For all people will walk every one in the
name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and
ever.
Mic 4:6 In that day, saith
the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will
gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Mic 4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant,
and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over
them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
Mic 4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the
stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first
dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Mic 4:9 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.
Mic 4:10 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 LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Mic 4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against
thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Mic 4:12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD,
neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves
into the floor.
Mic 4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I
will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hooves
brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and
I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord
of the whole earth.
Mark 1
Mar
1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God;
Mar 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I
send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Mar 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mar 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and
preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Mar 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of
Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of
Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mar 1:6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and
with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Mar 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one
mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop
down and unloose.
Mar 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Mar 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
Mar 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water,
he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Mar 1:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased.
Mar 1:12 And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
Mar 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty
days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered
unto him.
Mar 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus
came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mar 1:15 And saying, The
time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Mar 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he
saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were
fishers.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mar 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and
followed him.
Mar 1:19 And when he had gone a little farther thence,
he saw James the son of Zebedee, and
John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
Mar 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left
their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway
on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and
taught.
Mar 1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for
he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
Mar 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with
an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
Mar 1:24 Saying, Let us
alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to
destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Mar 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Mar 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and
cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
Mar 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they
questioned among themselves saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth
he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
Mar 1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad
throughout all the region round about Galilee.
Mar 1:29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the
synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and
John.
Mar 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a
fever, and anon they tell him of her.
Mar 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and
lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto
them.
Mar 1:32 And at even, when the sun did set, they
brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with
devils.
Mar 1:33 And all the city was gathered together at the
door.
Mar 1:34 And he healed many that were sick of divers
diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak,
because they knew him.
Mar 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while
before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Mar 1:36 And Simon and they that were with him
followed after him.
Mar 1:37 And when they had found him, they said unto
him, All men seek for thee.
Mar 1:38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
Mar 1:39 And he preached in their synagogues
throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.
Mar 1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching
him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean.
Mar 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
Mar 1:42 And, as soon as he had spoken, immediately
the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Mar 1:43 And he straitly charged
him, and forthwith sent him away;
Mar 1:44 And saith unto him,
See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Mar 1:45 But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch
that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert
places: and they came to him from every quarter.