Word: micah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count upon the friendly help of the United States." Said the President earlier in the week: "To day in the Middle East-as in Viet Nam and America-we are faced with a task of rebuilding, of putting together a human equation, where men can live as the prophet Micah said, 'Every man under his vine and fig tree; and none shall make them afraid...
...Scabbards. That may be an elusive vision. The problem for U.S. policymakers is that the Arabs see no room for Israeli fig trees anywhere in the Middle East; they remain committed to destroying the little country. For their part, the Israelis have no intention of following the advice of Micah and another favorite Johnsonian prophet-Isaiah-and beating their swords into plowshares. "Return your swords to your scabbards," said Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week, "but keep them ever ready, for the time has not yet come when you can beat them into plowshares...
...Testament was such a success, Phillips admits, that people pestered him to try the Old as well. Now Macmillan has published in the U.S. Phillips' first attempt to put the Hebrew books in English, a translation of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah called Four Prophets...
...King James Version makes Amos 4:6 sound like a fluoridation spiel, translating it: "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities." Phillips recaptures the original sense with his phrasing: "It was I who gave you hungry mouths in all your cities." And in Micah 6:16, where the King James has the Lord meaninglessly warning "that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing," Phillips has the sensible "and they compel me to bring you to ruin, and make your inhabitants an object of scorn...