Micah 1
Micah 1
YHWH descends from his temple; Samaria is sentenced to rubble; the prophet mourns the lowland towns in bitter place-name puns as Assyria advances.
Micah — chapter by chapter
All 7 chapters, in three movements — judgment, hope, and the courtroom of the LORD.
Micah moves in pairs: indictment then promise, lament then vision. Chapters 1–3 build the case against Jerusalem's elite. Chapters 4–5 pivot to the swords-into-plowshares oracle and the Bethlehem prophecy. Chapters 6–7 stage the great courtroom and close on the prophet's own name as a doxology.
Judgment · Micah 1–3
The indictment of Samaria, Jerusalem, and the ruling class.
Micah 2
Micah 2
Landowners who scheme by night and seize by day face the LORD's counter-scheme; false prophets silence the warning; a remnant oracle promises regathering.
Micah 3
Micah 3
Three oracles name the rulers who devour the people, the prophets who calibrate their message to their meal, and pronounce Zion plowed as a field.
Hope · Micah 4–5
Swords into plowshares; the ruler from Bethlehem.
Micah 4
Micah 4
The swords-into-plowshares oracle opens the chapter; Micah adds the vine and fig tree the lowland smallholder knows; exile to Babylon is decreed and then reversed.
Micah 5
Micah 5
The Bethlehem prophecy names the coming ruler's small-village origin; the shepherd-king image follows; Assyria is defeated and the people's idolatries purged.
Lawsuit and lament · Micah 6–7
YHWH’s courtroom, the three-verb answer, and the closing doxology.
Micah 6
Micah 6
YHWH's courtroom sets mountains as witnesses; the people panic with escalating offers; the prophet answers with three verbs: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly.
Micah 7
Micah 7
The prophet surveys a society where trust has failed even in the household, holds his own confidence in the LORD, and closes with the doxology that is a pun on his own name.