The Bible, King James Version, Book 33: Micah

Among the most electrifying voices in ancient prophecy, Micah thundered his warnings across the hill country of Judah in the eighth century BC, and his words still reverberate. With fierce moral clarity, he excoriates the powerful who crush the poor, the judges who sell the innocent, the priests who teach for profit and prophets who divine for money. This is no tame oracle of comfort; it is a scream for justice in a world gone corrupt. Yet Micah does not end in condemnation. He offers the electrifying promise of a ruler emerging from humble Bethlehem, a shepherd who will bring peace. And threaded through his oracles is the question that has echoed through centuries: 'What doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?' For readers drawn to raw prophetic voice, to ancient texts that still speak to modern concerns about power and poverty, this compact book burns with urgent, unquiet truth.