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Micah 1

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The LORD is coming!
1The LORD’s word that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Judah’s Kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:
2Listen, all you peoples!
Pay attention, earth, and all that fills it!
May the LORD God be a witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.
3Look! The LORD is coming out from his place;
he will go down and tread on the shrines of the earth.
4Then the mountains will melt under him;
the valleys will split apart,
like wax yielding to the fire,
like waters poured down a slope.
5All this is for the crime of Jacob
and the sins of the house of Israel.
Who is responsible for the crime of Jacob?#1.5 Heb lacks responsible for.
Isn’t it Samaria?
Who is responsible for#1.5 Heb lacks responsible for. the shrines of Judah?
Isn’t it Jerusalem?
6So I will make Samaria a pile of rubble in the open field,
a place for planting vineyards.
I will pour her stones into the valley;
her foundations I will lay bare.
7All her images will be beaten to pieces;
all her wages will be burned;
I will make all her idols worthless.
Since she gathered them from the wages of a prostitute,
they will again become wages of a prostitute.
8On account of this, I will cry out and howl;
I will go about barefoot and stripped.
I will cry out like the jackals,
and mourn like the ostriches.
Destruction looms
9Indeed, Zion has been weakened by her wounds!
It has come as far as Judah;
he has struck as far as the gate of my people,
as far as Jerusalem.
10In Gath tell it not; no need to weep there!#1.10 Heb lacks there.
In Beth-le-aphrah, roll yourself in the dust!
11Pass by (for your sake),#1.11 You (plural) inhabitants of Shaphir!
In nakedness and shame she will not go out, inhabitants of Zaanan.
The cry of Beth-ezel
will take away from you#1.11 You (feminine singular) any place to stand.
12How she longs for good, inhabitants of Maroth!
Calamity has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
13Harness the horses to the chariot, inhabitants of Lachish!
It was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion;
the crimes of Israel have been found in you.
14Therefore, you will give good-bye gifts to Moresheth-gath;
the houses of Achzib have become a deception for the kings of Israel.
15Again I will bring to you the one who conquers, inhabitants of Mareshah;
the glory of Israel will come as far as Adullam.
16Make yourself bald and cut off your hair
because of your cherished children!
Make yourself as bald as the vulture,
for they have gone from you into exile.

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