Micah 1:2-7
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Hear, [a]all ye people: hearken thou, O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you, even the Lord from his holy Temple.
3 For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, and will come [b]down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall melt under him (so shall the valleys cleave) as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured downward.
5 For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel: what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not [c]Samaria? and which are the high [d]places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble down into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be broken, and all the [e]gifts thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I destroy: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return [f]to the wages of an harlot.
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- Micah 1:2 Because of the malice and obstinacy of the people, whom he had so oft exhorted to repentance, he summoneth them to God’s judgments, taking all creatures, and God himself to witness, that the preaching of his Prophets, which they have abused, shall be revenged.
- Micah 1:3 Meaning hereby, that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and holds.
- Micah 1:5 Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the puddle, and stews of all idolatry and corruption, and boasted themselves of their father Jacob.
- Micah 1:5 That is, the idolatry and infection.
- Micah 1:7 Which they gathered by evil practices, and thought that their idols had enriched them therewith for their service unto them.
- Micah 1:7 The gain that came by their idols shall be consumed as a thing of naught: for as the wages or riches of harlots are wickedly gotten, so are they vilely and speedily spent.
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