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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This message from the LORD came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of the Judean kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah concerning the vision he saw about Samaria and Jerusalem: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Listen, people! All of you! Earth! Pay attention, and all you inhabitants of it! May the Lord GOD be a witness against you— the Lord from his holy Temple. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Look here! The LORD is coming from his place! He will come down and will trample down the high places throughout the land. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will split apart, like wax in the presence of fire and like water gushing down a steep incline. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5All this comes about due to the transgression of Jacob, and due to the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's sin? It's Samaria, isn't it? And what's Judah's high place? It's Jerusalem, isn't it? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"So I will turn Samaria into a mound of dirt in a field, a place to plant vineyards. And I will dump her building stones into the valley, uncovering her foundation. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7All of her carved images will be crushed to pieces, all the earnings of her prostitution will be burned up, and I will destroy all her idols; because she collected the wages of prostitution, and to the wages of prostitution they will return." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Therefore I will cry out and grieve loudly; I will walk around stripped and naked. I will cry out like a jackal and mourn like a company of ostriches. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For Samaria's injury is fatal, reaching all the way to Judah, extending even to the gate of my people—to Jerusalem." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Don't discuss it in Gath! Don't cry bitterly in Akim! Roll in the ashes, Beth-leaphrah! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Run away, you residents of Shaphir, displaying your shameful nakedness. Don't come out, you residents of Zaanan! Your firm standing will disappear as Beth-ezel mourns. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Even though the inhabitants of Maroth long for success, nevertheless evil descended from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"You inhabitants of Lachish, harness your chariot to your swiftest steed— the daughter of Zion has begun to sin— because within you the transgressions of Israel were revealed. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore give your gifts to Moresheth-gath; that is, the houses of Achzib as a deceitful symbol to the kings of Israel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Nevertheless, I will deliver an heir to you, inhabitants of Mareshah— to Adullam the glory of Israel will come. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Shave your head and cut off your locks as you mourn your beloved children. Make yourself bald as an eagle, because they will go from you into exile!" |
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