Micah 1:5-15

New King James Version

⁵All 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 ^(A)high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?

⁶“Therefore I will make Samaria ^(B)a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will ^(C)uncover her foundations.
⁷All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her ^(D)pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the ^(E)pay of a harlot.”

Mourning for Israel and Judah

⁸Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
^(F)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
⁹For her wounds are incurable.
For ^(G)it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.

¹⁰^(H)Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all;
In ^[a]Beth Aphrah
Roll yourself in the dust.
¹¹Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of ^[b]Shaphir;
The inhabitant of ^[c]Zaanan does not go out.
Beth Ezel mourns;
Its place to stand is taken away from you.

¹²For the inhabitant of ^[d]Maroth ^[e]pined for good,
But ^(I)disaster came down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.
¹³O inhabitant of ^(J)Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were ^(K)found in you.

¹⁴Therefore you shall ^(L)give presents to ^[f]Moresheth Gath;
The houses of ^(M)Achzib^[g] shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of ^(N)Mareshah;^[h]
The glory of Israel shall come to ^(O)Adullam.^[i]