Micah 1:1-7 ▼

1 The word of YHWH that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.

2 Hear, O peoples, all of them! Pay attention, O earth, and its fullness! And may the Lord YHWH be against you? as a witness—the Lord from the temple of His holiness!

3 For behold, YHWH is coming from His station. He will come down and will tread upon the high places of the earth.

4 And the mountains will melt under Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the face of the fire, like waters poured down on a slope.

5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob 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 And I will set Samaria as a heap of ruins in the field, a planting area of a vineyard; I will pour down her stones into the valley, and her foundations I will uncover.

7 And all her carved images will be crushed, and all her wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will set as a desolation. For from the wages of a prostitute she gathered it, and to the wages of a prostitute they will return!