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Judgment to Come

Verse1This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:

Verse2Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

Verse3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

Verse4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

Verse5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

Verse6Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

Verse7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

Weeping and Mourning

Verse8Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Verse9For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Verse10Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

Verse11Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.

Verse12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

Verse13Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

Verse14Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.

Verse15I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Verse16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.