Mikha 1:2
Konteks1:2 Listen, all you nations! 1
Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! 2
The sovereign Lord will testify 3 against you;
the Lord will accuse you 4 from his majestic palace. 5
Mikha 3:7
Konteks3:7 The prophets 6 will be ashamed;
the omen readers will be humiliated.
All of them will cover their mouths, 7
for they will receive no divine oracles.” 8
Mikha 7:2
Konteks7:2 Faithful men have disappeared 9 from the land;
there are no godly men left. 10
They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; 11
they hunt their own brother with a net. 12
[1:2] 1 tn Heb “O peoples, all of them.”
[1:2] 2 tn Heb “O earth and all its fullness”; KJV “and all that therein is.”
[1:2] 3 tn Heb “May the sovereign
[1:2] 4 tn Heb “the
[1:2] 5 tn Or “his holy temple” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to the Lord’s dwelling in heaven, however, rather than the temple in Jerusalem (note the following verse, which describes a theophany).
[3:7] 7 tn Or “the mustache,” or perhaps “the beard.” Cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “cover their lips.”
[3:7] 8 tn Heb “for there will be no answer from God.”
[7:2] 9 tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”
[7:2] 10 tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”
[7:2] 11 tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”
[7:2] 12 sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.