Micah 1
1 The word of the LORD came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, all you peoples; pay attention, earth, and everything in it! May the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord, from his holy temple.
3 For the LORD is coming out from his place; he will come down and walk on the heights of the earth.
4 The mountains will melt beneath him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water poured down a slope.
5 All this is because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob’s rebellion? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
6 So I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the countryside, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations.
7 All her carved images will be shattered, all her gifts from prostitution will be burned in the fire, and I will turn all her idols into ruins. For she gathered them as a prostitute’s wages, and they will return as a prostitute’s wages.
8 Because of this I will mourn and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will wail like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
9 For her wound is incurable; it has reached Judah, it has come to the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem.
10 Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. In Beth-le-aphrah, roll in the dust.
11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, naked and ashamed. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not come out; the wailing of Beth-ezel takes away its support from you.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, but disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Harness the chariot to the horses, inhabitant of Lachish; she was the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for the rebellions of Israel were found in you.
14 Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceitful to the kings of Israel.
15 I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitant of Mareshah; the glory of Israel will come as far as Adullam.
16 Shave your head and cut off your hair for the children who were your delight; make your baldness wide like the eagle’s, for they have been taken from you into exile.
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