MICAH 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as the plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate: for of the hire of an harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of an harlot shall they return.
8 For this will I wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a mourning like the ostriches.
9 For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
10 Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-Aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.
11 Pass ye away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
14 Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.
15 I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Cross-references
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- 1Jer 26:18, Isa 1:1, Hos 1:1, Amo 1:1, 2Ch 27:1–9, Amo 2:4–8, Hos 8:14, Hos 4:15
- 2Isa 1:2, Psa 11:4, Rev 3:22, Mal 3:5, Jer 22:29, Rev 3:13, Mic 6:1–2, Rev 2:7
- 3Amo 4:13, Isa 26:21, Deu 32:13, Psa 115:3, Hab 3:19, Isa 64:1–2, Isa 2:10–19, Ezk 3:12
- 4Nam 1:5, Psa 97:5, Hab 3:6, Isa 64:1–3, Jdg 5:4, Amo 9:5, Hab 3:10, Rev 20:11
- 5Jer 2:19, Amo 8:14, 1Th 2:15–16, 1Ki 13:32, Lam 5:16, Isa 50:1–2, 2Ki 17:7–23, Jer 6:19
- 6Ezk 13:14, Mic 3:12, 2Ki 19:25, Lam 4:1, Isa 25:2, Hab 3:13, Hos 13:16, Jer 51:37
- 7Deu 23:18, Hos 2:12, Hos 8:6, Hos 10:5–6, Rev 18:3, 2Ch 34:6–7, Jer 44:17–18, Hos 2:5
- 8Isa 20:2–4, Isa 22:4, Jer 48:36–39, Jer 9:1, Job 30:29, Isa 21:3, Jer 4:19, Jer 9:19
- 9Jer 30:11–15, Jer 15:18, Isa 8:7–8, 2Ch 32:1–23, Mic 1:12, Isa 1:5–6, 2Ki 18:9–13, Isa 3:26
- 102Sa 1:20, Jer 6:26, Amo 5:13, Amo 6:10, Lam 3:29, Job 2:8, Jos 18:23
- 11Isa 20:4, Ezk 23:29, Isa 47:2–3, Ezk 16:37, Jer 48:9, Jer 48:6, Isa 16:2, Nam 3:5
- 12Jer 14:19, Amo 3:6, Mic 1:9, Jer 8:15, Job 30:26, Isa 59:9–11, Isa 45:7, Rut 1:20
- 132Ki 18:17, 2Ch 32:9, Jos 10:3, Jer 4:29, 1Ki 14:16, Exo 32:21, Gen 19:17, Mic 1:5
- 14Jos 15:44, 2Ki 16:8, Psa 118:8–9, Isa 30:6, Psa 62:9, 2Ki 18:14–16, 2Sa 8:2, Psa 146:3–4
- 15Jos 15:44, 1Sa 22:1, Jos 15:35, Jos 12:15, Isa 10:3, Jer 49:1, Isa 10:5–6, 2Ch 11:7
- 16Isa 22:12, Job 1:20, Jer 7:29, Jer 16:6, Amo 8:10, Isa 39:6–7, Isa 3:16–26, 2Ki 17:6