- 1 Micah 1 1 Micah 1 (16 verses in the MT) opens: The word of YHWH that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The middle of the chapter continues: For her wound incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. It closes: Make you bald, and poll you for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from you.
- 2 Micah 2 2 Micah 2 (13 verses in the MT) opens: 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. The middle of the chapter continues: O named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of YHWH straitened? these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? It closes: 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 YHWH on the head of them.
- 3 Micah 3 3 Micah 3 (12 verses in the MT) opens: And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; not for you to know judgment? The middle of the chapter continues: Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for no answer of God. It closes: Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
- 4 Micah 4 4 Micah 4 (14 verses in the MT) opens: But in the last days it shall come to pass, the mountain of the house of YHWH shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. The middle of the chapter continues: And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. It closes: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
- 5 Micah 5 5 Micah 5 (14 verses in the MT) opens: But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you be little among the thousands of Judah, out of you shall he come forth to me to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth from of old, from everlasting. The middle of the chapter continues: Your hand shall be lifted up upon your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off. It closes: And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
- 6 Micah 6 6 Micah 6 (16 verses in the MT) opens: Hear you now what YHWH says; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. The middle of the chapter continues: YHWH's voice crieth to the city, and wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it. It closes: For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the.
- 7 Micah 7 7 Micah 7 (20 verses in the MT) opens: Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. The middle of the chapter continues: the day that your walls are to be built, that day shall the decree be far removed. It closes: You will perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.