Micah 1:5-16 ▼

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 the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

6 “And I have set Samaria for a heap of the field, || For plantations of a vineyard, || And poured out into a valley her stones, || And her foundations I uncover.

7 And all her carved images are beaten down, || And all her wages are burned with fire, || And all her idols I make a desolation, || For from the wage of a harlot she gathered, and to the wage of a harlot they return.”

8 For this I lament and howl, || I go spoiled and naked, || I make a lamentation like dragons, || And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

9 For mortal [are] her wounds, || For it has come to Judah, || It has come to a gate of My people—to Jerusalem.

10 In Gath do not tell—in Acco do not weep, || In Beth-Aphrah, roll yourself in dust.

11 Pass over for you, O inhabitant of Shaphir, || Naked one of shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not gone out, || The lamentation of Beth-Ezel takes from you its standing.

12 For the inhabitant of Maroth has stayed for good, || For calamity has come down from YHWH to the gate of Jerusalem.

13 Bind the chariot to a swift beast, O inhabitant of Lachish, || The beginning of sin [is] she to the daughter of Zion, || For in you have been found the transgressions of Israel.

14 Therefore you give presents to Moresheth-Gath, || The houses of Achzib become a lying thing to the kings of Israel.

15 Yet I bring the possessor to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, || The glory of Israel comes to Adullam.

16 Make bald and shave, for your delightful sons, || Enlarge your baldness as an eagle, || For they have removed from you!