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ULT MIC Chapter 1

1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

2 Hear, all you peoples.

Listen, earth, and all that is in it.

Let the Lord Yahweh be against you as a witness,

the Lord from his holy temple.

3 For look, Yahweh comes out of his place;

he will come down and tread

on the high places of the earth.

4 The mountains will melt under him;

the valleys will break apart,

like wax before fire,

like waters that are poured down a steep place.

5 All this is because of the Jacob’s transgression,

and because of the sins of the house of Israel.

What is Jacob’s transgression?

Is it not Samaria?

What is Judah’s high place?

Is it not Jerusalem?

6 “I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,

a place for planting vineyards,

and I will pour her stones down into the valley

and I will uncover her foundations.

7 All her carved figures will be broken to pieces,

and all her payments will be burned with fire,

and all her idols, I will make a complete destruction.

Since from the payments of prostitutes she gathered them,

to the payments of prostitutes, they will return.”

8 Because of this, I will lament and wail;

I will go barefoot and naked;

I will wail like the jackals

and mourn like owls.

9 For her wound is incurable,

for it has come to Judah.

It has reached the gate of my people,

to Jerusalem.

10 Do not tell about it in Gath;

do not weep at all.

At Beth Leaphrah I roll myself in the dust.

11 Pass by, inhabitants of Shaphir,

in nakedness and shame.

do not come out, inhabitants of Zaanan.

Beth Ezel mourns,

its place to stand is taken from you.

12 For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good,

because disaster has come down from Yahweh

to the gates of Jerusalem.

13 Harness the chariot to the team of horses, inhabitants of Lachish.

She was the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion,

for in you were found, the transgressions of Israel.

14 So you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath;

the town of Akzib will decieve the kings of Israel.

15 I will again bring a conqueror to you,

inhabitants of Mareshah;

the splendor of Israel will come to Adullam.

16 Shave your head

and cut off your hair

for the sons in whom you delight.

Make yourself as bald as eagles,

for they will go into exile from you.

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