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MICAH
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- And sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
- For the statutes of Omri are kept,
- And all the works of the house of Ahab,
- And ye walk in their counsels;
- That I should make thee a desolation,
- And the inhabitants thereof an hissing:
- Therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
- Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits,
- As the grapegleanings of the vintage:
- There is no cluster to eat:
- My soul desired the firstripe fruit.
- The good man is perished out of the earth:
- And there is none upright among men:
- They all lie in wait for blood;
- They hunt every man his brother with a net.
- That they may do evil with both hands earnestly,
- The prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward;
- And the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire:
- So they wrap it up.
- The best of them is as a brier:
- The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge:
- The day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh;
- Now shall be their perplexity.
- Trust ye not in a friend,
- Put ye not confidence in a guide:
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