Micah Chapter 1 Back Next{1:1} The word of
Yahweh that came to
Micah the Morashtite in the days of
Jotham,
Ahaz, and
Hezekiah,
kings of
Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and
Jerusalem.
{1:2} Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O
earth, and all that is therein: and let the
Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
{1:3} For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the
high places of the earth.
{1:4} The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the
fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
{1:5} "All this is for the disobedience of
Jacob, and for the sins of the house of
Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?
{1:6} Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the
field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.
{1:7} All her
idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."
{1:8} For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.
{1:9} For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the
gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
{1:10} Don't tell it in Gath. Don't weep at all. At
Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the
dust.
{1:11} Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. The wailing of
Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
{1:12} For the inhabitant of
Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
{1:13} Harness the
chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of
Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
{1:14} Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of
Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
{1:15} I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of
Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to
Adullam.
{1:16} Shave your heads, and cut off your
hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your
baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into
captivity from you!
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