Mi 3-5 (King James)

   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? ² Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
   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. 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. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 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. 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.

Michée 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. 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. 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 pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 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. 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 for ever and ever. 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; 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 for ever.
   ⁸ And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. 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. 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. ¹¹ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. 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. ¹³ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs 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.

Michée 5

   ¹ Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. ² But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. ³ Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. ⁴ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. ⁵ And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. ⁶ And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
   ⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. ⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. ⁹ Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. ¹⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: ¹¹ And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: ¹² And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: ¹³ Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. ¹⁴ And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. ¹⁵ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

Mi 3-5 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Et dixi : Audite, principes Jacob,
et duces domus Israël :
numquid non vestrum est scire judicium,
   ² qui odio habetis bonum, et diligitis malum ;
qui violenter tollitis pelles eorum desuper eis,
et carnem eorum desuper ossibus eorum ;
   ³ qui comederunt carnem populi mei,
et pellem eorum desuper excoriaverunt,
et ossa eorum confregerunt,
et conciderunt sicut in lebete,
et quasi carnem in medio ollæ ?
   ⁴ Tunc clamabunt ad Dominum, et non exaudiet eos,
et abscondet faciem suam ab eis in tempore illo,
sicut nequiter egerunt in adinventionibus suis.
   ⁵ Hæc dicit Dominus super prophetas,
qui seducunt populum meum :
qui mordent dentibus suis,
et prædicant pacem ;
et si quis non dederit in ore eorum quippiam,
sanctificant super eum prælium.
   ⁶ Propterea nox vobis pro visione erit,
et tenebræ vobis pro divinatione ;
et occumbet sol super prophetas,
et obtenebrabitur super eos dies.
   ⁷ Et confundentur qui vident visiones,
et confundentur divini ;
et operient omnes vultos suos,
quia non est responsum Dei.
   ⁸ Verumtamen ego repletus sum fortitudine spiritus Domini,
judicio, et virtute,
ut annuntiem Jacob scelus suum,
et Israël peccatum suum.
   ⁹ Audite hoc, principes domus Jacob,
et judices domus Israël,
qui abominamini judicium,
et omnia recta pervertitis :
   ¹⁰ qui ædificatis Sion in sanguinibus,
et Jerusalem in iniquitate.
   ¹¹ Principes ejus in muneribus judicabant,
et sacerdotes ejus in mercede docebant,
et prophetæ ejus in pecunia divinabant :
et super Dominum requiescebant, dicentes :
Numquid non Dominus in medio nostrum ?
non venient super nos mala.
   ¹² Propter hoc, causa vestri, Sion quasi ager arabitur,
et Jerusalem quasi acervus lapidum erit,
et mons templi in excelsa silvarum.]

Michée 4

   ¹ [Et erit : in novissimo dierum
erit mons domus Domini præparatus in vertice montium,
et sublimis super colles :
et fluent ad eum populi,
   ² et properabunt gentes multæ, et dicent :
Venite, ascendamus ad montem Domini,
et ad domum Dei Jacob :
et docebit nos de viis suis,
et ibimus in semitis ejus,
quia de Sion egredietur lex,
et verbum Domini de Jerusalem.
   ³ Et judicabit inter populos multos,
et corripiet gentes fortes usque in longinquum :
et concident gladios suos in vomeres,
et hastas suas in ligones :
non sumet gens adversus gentem gladium,
et non discent ultra belligerare.
   ⁴ Et sedebit vir subtus vitem suam et subtus ficum suam,
et non erit qui deterreat,
quia os Domini exercituum locutum est.
   ⁵ Quia omnes populi ambulabunt
unusquisque in nomine dei sui ;
nos autem ambulabimus
in nomine Domini Dei nostri,
in æternum et ultra.]
   ⁶ [In die illa, dicit Dominus,
congregabo claudicantem,
et eam quam ejeceram colligam,
et quam afflixeram :
   ⁷ et ponam claudicantem in reliquias,
et eam quæ laboraverat, in gentem robustam :
et regnabit Dominus super eos in monte Sion,
ex hoc nunc et usque in æternum.
   ⁸ Et tu, turris gregis nebulosa filiæ Sion,
usque ad te veniet,
et veniet potestas prima,
regnum filiæ Jerusalem.
   ⁹ Nunc quare mœrore contraheris ?
numquid rex non est tibi,
aut consiliarius tuus periit,
quia comprehendit te dolor sicut parturientem ?
   ¹⁰ Dole et satage, filia Sion, quasi parturiens,
quia nunc egredieris de civitate,
et habitabis in regione,
et venies usque ad Babylonem :
ibi liberaberis,
ibi redimet te Dominus de manu inimicorum tuorum.
   ¹¹ Et nunc congregatæ sunt super te gentes multæ, quæ dicunt :
Lapidetur, et aspiciat in Sion oculus noster.
   ¹² Ipsi autem non cognoverunt cogitationes Domini,
et non intellexerunt consilium ejus,
quia congregavit eos quasi fœnum areæ.
   ¹³ Surge, et tritura, filia Sion,
quia cornu tuum ponam ferreum,
et ungulas tuas ponam æreas ;
et comminues populos multos,
et interficies Domino rapinas eorum,
et fortitudinem eorum Domino universæ terræ.]

Michée 5

   ¹ [Nunc vastaberis, filia latronis.
Obsidionem posuerunt super nos :
in virga percutient maxillam judicis Israël.]
   ² [Et tu, Bethlehem Ephrata,
parvulus es in millibus Juda ;
ex te mihi egredietur qui sit dominator in Israël,
et egressus ejus ab initio,
a diebus æternitatis.
   ³ Propter hoc dabit eos usque ad tempus in quo parturiens pariet,
et reliquiæ fratrum ejus convertentur ad filios Israël.
   ⁴ Et stabit, et pascet in fortitudine Domini,
in sublimitate nominis Domini Dei sui :
et convertentur,
quia nunc magnificabitur usque ad terminos terræ.
   ⁵ Et erit iste pax :
cum venerit Assyrius in terram nostram,
et quando calcaverit in domibus nostris,
et suscitabimus super eum septem pastores
et octo primates homines ;
   ⁶ et pascent terram Assur in gladio,
et terram Nemrod in lanceis ejus,
et liberabit ab Assur cum venerit in terram nostram,
et cum calcaverit in finibus nostris.
   ⁷ Et erunt reliquiæ Jacob in medio populorum multorum
quasi ros a Domino,
et quasi stillæ super herbam,
quæ non exspectat virum,
et non præstolatur filios hominum.
   ⁸ Et erunt reliquiæ Jacob in gentibus,
in medio populorum multorum,
quasi leo in jumentis silvarum,
et quasi catulus leonis in gregibus pecorum,
qui cum transierit, et conculcaverit, et ceperit,
non est qui eruat.
   ⁹ Exaltabitur manus tua super hostes tuos,
et omnes inimici tui interibunt.
   ¹⁰ Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus :
auferam equos tuos de medio tui,
et disperdam quadrigas tuas.
   ¹¹ Et perdam civitates terræ tuæ,
et destruam omnes munitiones tuas :
et auferam maleficia de manu tua,
et divinationes non erunt in te :
   ¹² et perire faciam sculptilia tua et statuas tuas de medio tui,
et non adorabis ultra opera manuum tuarum :
   ¹³ et evellam lucos tuos de medio tui,
et conteram civitates tuas.
   ¹⁴ Et faciam, in furore et in indignatione, ultionem
in omnibus gentibus quæ non audierunt.]