Micah 1

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(Mic 1:1) The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, {and} Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
(Mic 1:2) Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
(Mic 1:3) For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
(Mic 1:4) And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, {and} as the waters {that are} poured down a steep place.
(Mic 1:5) 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 {are} the high places of Judah? {are they} not Jerusalem?
(Mic 1:6) Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, {and} as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
(Mic 1:7) And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered {it} of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
(Mic 1:8) Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
(Mic 1:9) For her wound {is} incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, {even} to Jerusalem.
(Mic 1:10) Declare ye {it} not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
(Mic 1:11) Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
(Mic 1:12) For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.
(Mic 1:13) O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she {is} the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
(Mic 1:14) Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib {shall be} a lie to the kings of Israel.
(Mic 1:15) Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
(Mic 1:16) Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
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