Micah
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Injustice in Micah

  1. God will destroy Samaria with stones. 1:6

  2. "Evil came down from the Lord." 1:12

  3. "Behold, against this family do I devise an evil." 2:3

  4. Plucking off skin, flesh from bones, eating human flesh, flaying off skin, breaking bones, chopping bodies in pieces, making human stew. All this and more will happen to God's favorite people. But when they "cry unto the Lord, he will not hear them." 3:2-4

  5. Because the leaders of the nation were corrupt, God plans to punish everyone. 3:9-12

  6. God will strengthen the Israelites so they can "beat in pieces many peoples" and give the booty to God. 4:13

  7. "They shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword." 5:6

  8. Like a young lion "the remnant of Jacob" will tear the Gentiles to pieces. 5:8

  9. "Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off." 5:9

  10. God will "cut off" the witches and soothsayers. 5:11-12

  11. God will destroy entire cities, and "execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard." 5:14-15

  12. God will make his people sick, hungry, and desolate. Those who survive he will "give up to the sword." 6:13-16

  13. The Gentiles will be made deaf, shall lick dust and be forced to crawl like worms from fear of God and his people. 7:16-17