Micah 2:11

2:11 If a lying windbag should come and say, ¹ 

‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ ² 

he would be just the right preacher for these people! ³ 

Micah 4:4-5

4:4 Each will sit under his own grapevine

or under his own fig tree without any fear. ⁴ 

The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. ⁵ 

4:5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, ⁶ 

we will follow ⁷  the Lord our God forever.

Micah 7:2

7:2 Faithful men have disappeared ⁸  from the land;

there are no godly men left. ⁹ 

They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; ¹⁰ 

they hunt their own brother with a net. ¹¹ 

Micah 7:6

7:6 For a son thinks his father is a fool,

a daughter challenges ¹²  her mother,

and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law;

a man’s enemies are his own servants. ¹³ 

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “if a man, coming [as] wind and falsehood, should lie”; NASB “walking after wind and falsehood”; NIV “a liar and a deceiver.”

[2:11]  ² tn Heb “I will foam at the mouth concerning wine and beer.”

[2:11]  ³ tn Heb “he would be the foamer at the mouth for this people.”

[4:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and there will be no one making [him] afraid.”

[4:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.”

[4:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “walk each in the name of his god.” The term “name” here has the idea of “authority.” To “walk in the name” of a god is to recognize the god’s authority as binding over one’s life.

[4:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “walk in the name of.”

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”

[7:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

[7:2]  ¹² tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”

[7:2]  ¹³ sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.

[7:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “rises up against.”

[7:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the enemies of a man are the men of his house.”