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Micah 1

The word of the LORD comes to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The LORD comes down and the mountains melt under him, because of the sins of Israel and Judah. Samaria will become a heap of ruins. Micah mourns, going barefoot and stripped, because the wound has reached the gate of Jerusalem, and he names the towns of Judah one by one in a lament full of wordplay.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1Micah's setting: the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah.
  • Verse 3The LORD comes down from his place.
  • Verse 6Samaria will become a heap of ruins.
  • Verse 9The wound reaches the gate of Jerusalem.

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.SelectedMicah 1:1Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:2Ask

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.SelectedMicah 1:3Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:4Ask

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?SelectedMicah 1:5Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:6Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:7Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:8Ask

For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.SelectedMicah 1:9Ask

Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.SelectedMicah 1:10Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:11Ask

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.SelectedMicah 1:12Ask

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.SelectedMicah 1:13Ask

Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.SelectedMicah 1:14Ask

Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.SelectedMicah 1:15Ask

Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.SelectedMicah 1:16Ask

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