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• Poor remnant of Jacob, lost among that multitude of peoples! Yet thrive it shall; does not the grass thrive, with dew and shower from the Lord to water it, nor looks for man’s tending, unbeholden to our human toil? (Micah 5, 7)

• the cities lost, ruined the strongholds. Sorcery thou shalt have none to trust in, nor divinings; (Micah 5, 11)

• How best may I humble myself before the Lord, that is God most high? What offering shall I bring? Calf, think you, of a year old, for my burnt-sacrifice? (Micah 6, 6)

• Here the uneven scales, there the bag of short weights, and shall I hold you acquitted? (Micah 6, 11)

• Cruel as thorns they be, that are kindliest of them, close as thorn-hedge, that are honest above the rest. Surely this is the day thy watchmen foretold, surely thou wilt call them to account; not long delayed their last extremity! (Micah 7, 4)

• here, where son fools father, and daughter her mother, and son’s wife her mother-in-law, where a man’s own household are his enemies! (Micah 7, 6)

• Sore abashed that enemy of mine shall behold it; only yesterday she was crying, What is become of thy God now? Welcome the sight, when she is trampled down like mire in the streets!✻ (Micah 7, 10)

• With that staff of thine gather thy people in, the flock that is thy very own, scattered now in the forest glades, with rich plenty all around them; Basan and Galaad for their pasture-grounds, as in the days of old. (Micah 7, 14)

• Here is a sight to make the Gentiles hold their valour cheap, stand there dumb; ay, and why not deaf too? (Micah 7, 16)

• Out with silver, out with gold of hers; store is here of costly stuff beyond price or reckoning! (Nahum 2, 9)

• What marvel if the old teachings are torn up,✻ and redress is never to be found? Innocence by knavery circumvented still, and false award given! (Habakkuk 1, 4)

• Have you no eyes for the world about you? Look upon it with wonder and awe; in your own days here be strange deeds a-doing, so strange, a man would scarce credit them if they were told in story.✻ (Habakkuk 1, 5)