Micah 1

Revised Geneva Translation

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

² Hear, all you people! Listen, O Earth, and all that therein is! And let the LORD God be Witness against you, the LORD from His Holy Temple.

³ For behold, the LORD comes out of His place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the Earth.

⁴ And the mountains shall melt under Him. So shall the valleys cling as wax before the fire, as the waters that are poured downward.

⁵ This is all because of the wickedness of Jacob, and for the sins of the House of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

⁶ “Therefore, I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, for the planting of a vineyard. And I will make its stones tumble down into the valley. And I will uncover its foundations.

⁷ “And all its graven images shall be broken. And all its gifts shall be burnt with the fire. And I will destroy all its idols. For she gathered it from the hire of a harlot. And they shall return to the wages of a harlot.”

⁸ Therefore I will mourn and howl! I will go without clothes, naked. I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.

⁹ For her plagues are grievous. For it has come into Judah, has come to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Do not declare it at Gath, or weep. Roll yourself in the dust for the House of Aphrah.

¹¹ You who dwell at Shaphir go together, naked with shame. She who dwells at Zaanan shall not come forth in the mourning of Beth Ezel. Your standing shall be taken from you.

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³ O you inhabitant of Lachish! Bind the chariot to the beasts of price. She is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion. For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

¹⁴ Therefore, you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib shall be as a lie to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵ Yet I will bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah. He, the glory of Israel, shall come to Adullam.

¹⁶ Make yourself bald and shave yourself for your delicate children. Enlarge your baldness as the eagle; for they have gone into captivity from you.