| 1. The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, which he prophesied concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. |
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| 2. Hear, all you peoples; hearken, O land and the fullness thereof, and let the Lord God be a witness against you; the Lord from His Holy Temple. |
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| 3. For behold, the Lord comes forth from His place, and He shall descend and tread upon the high places of the earth. |
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| 4. And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys shall split-as wax before fire, as water poured down a steep place. |
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| 5. All this is because of the transgression of Jacob, and because of the sins of the house of Israel. Who is [the cause of] the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And who [is the cause of] the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? |
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| 6. And I will make Samaria into a heap in the field, into a place for planting vineyards; and I will cast its stones down into the valley, and its foundations I will uncover. |
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| 7. And all its graven images shall be crushed, and all its hires shall be burnt with fire, and all its idols I will lay waste; for from the hire of a harlot it gathered, and to the hire of a harlot shall they return. |
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| 8. Concerning this I will lament and wail; I will go mad and be naked; I will make a wailing as jackals, and mourning as ostriches. |
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| 9. For she is mortally ill [from] her wounds, for it has come up to Judah; it has reached the gate of My people up to Jerusalem. |
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ט. |
| 10. Do not declare it in Gath, do not weep; in the houses of Aphrah, wallow in the dust. |
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| 11. Pass along your way, you inhabitant of Shafir, with your private parts exposed; the inhabitants of Zaanan did not go forth; the lamentation caused by drawing the houses one to the other shall take its stand from you. |
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יא. |
| 12. For the one dwelling in disobedience hoped for good, but evil descended from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem. |
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| 13. Hitch the chariot to the swift steeds, you inhabitant of Lachish; it is the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel. |
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| 14. Since you give expulsions to the dynasty that gave you the possession of Gath, the houses of Achzib shall be a dried up spring for the kings of Israel. |
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| 15. I will yet bring the possessor to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah; up to Adullam shall the glory of Israel come. |
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| 16. Make [your head] bald and crop [your hair] for the children of your delight; widen your bald spot [to be] like an eagle-for they have been exiled from you. |
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