Micah 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, all ye people; 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, and as the 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 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 the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; 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