“Reasons For Judgment” Lesson Text: Micah 1; 2: Series: The Justice and Love Of God: SS Summer Quarter, 2006 June, July, August:

Key Verse: Micah 2:7:

King James Translation: O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? Are these doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

Interlinear Translation: “It is said, house of Jacob, is limited the spirit of Jehovah if there his doings. Are not my words doing good with the upright walking?”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: “O THOU THAT ART NAMED = to say, answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, certify, challenge, charge. THE HOUSE = family, household, place, temple. OF JACOB = heel-catcher, i.e. supplanter, to swell cut or up, to seize by the heel, figuratively to circumvent as if tripping up the heels, to restrain as if holding by the heel, stay, supplant. IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD = wind, breath, life. STRAITENED = to dock off, i.e. curtail, cut down, much discouraged, grieved, loathe, mourn, troubled, vexed. ARE THESE DOINGS = rebellion, be bitter or unpleasant, to rebel or resist, be disobedient. DO NOT MY WORDS = a matter as spoken, a cause, advise, affair, answer. DO GOOD = make well, make sound, make beautiful, or figuratively happy, successful, right, be accepted. TO HIM THAT WALKETH = apace, behave self, exercise self, go along, go forward. UPRIGHTLY = straight, convenient, equity, just, pleased well, righteous.