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UST MIC Chapter 1

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1 These are the messages that Yahweh gave to Micah, who was from the town of Moresheth in Judah. Yahweh gave these messages to Micah during the time when Jotham, then Ahaz, and then Hezekiah ruled as kings of Judah. These are messages about what Yahweh showed Micah would happen to Samaria and to Jerusalem.

2 Hear this, all you people everywhere on the earth!

The Lord Yahweh is about to testify against you

from the holy place where he rules in heaven.

3 But now look! Yahweh is about to come out from heaven and come down to the earth

where he will walk on the tops of the mountains.

4 He is so powerful that it will be as though the mountains will melt beneath him

as easily as wax melts near a fire

and as quickly as water rushes down a hillside,

and the valleys will split apart.

5 All of this will happen because the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, have sinned against Yahweh.

It was the leaders of the people in the city of Samaria who led all of the descendants of Jacob to sin!

It was the leaders of the people in Jerusalem who led the people of Judah to worship idols on the hilltops!

6 So Yahweh says, “I will turn the city of Samaria into a heap of rubble in the countryside;

it will be a place for planting vineyards.

I will roll the stones of its buildings down into the valley

and strip the buildings down to their foundations.

7 Enemies will smash all of the idols in Samaria to pieces

and burn up all the gifts that people gave at the idol temples.

I will make all of the idols there into ruins

because the people of Samaria collected these precious things by their business of prostitution at the temples,

so enemies will carry them off and use them to pay prostitutes elsewhere.”

8 Because of all of this, I will weep and wail.

I will walk around without my sandals and without my clothes.

I will howl like a jackal

and cry out like a family of owls.

9 This is because nothing now can stop Yahweh from destroying Samaria.

And because the same thing will also happen to Judah;

it is as though the enemy army has arrived already at the gates of Jerusalem,

the city where my people live.

10 Do not tell our enemies in the city of Gath about this!

Certainly do not cry aloud!

Instead, roll in the dust at Beth Leaphrah.

11 You people who live in Shaphir

will march away naked and ashamed.

The people of Zaanan

will not go out to help you.

The people of Beth Ezel will mourn,

and by their mourning you will know that you have nowhere left to stand.

12 Indeed, the people of Maroth wait anxiously for something good to happen,

but nothing good will come.

Instead, Yahweh has caused terrible things to happen,

all the way to the gates of Jerusalem.

13 You people of Lachish,

hitch your swift horses to your war chariots and flee!

You were the first ones to lead the people of Zion to sin,

because you caused the people of Israel to rebel against Yahweh.

14 So you leaders in Jerusalem will have to send farewell gifts

as you part with the town of Moresheth Gath, as a father does when giving a daughter in marriage.

The town of Achzib

will prove to be deceptive to the rulers of Israel.

15 You people of Mareshah,

Yahweh will bring a conqueror to take over your town, as well.

The honored leaders of Israel

will go to Adullam once again to hide in the cave.

16 You leaders of Israel, completely shave your heads in mourning

for the children whom you love.

Shave yourselves completely bald, like a vulture,

because your enemies will take your children far away from you into exile.

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