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. See also: Jeremiah 26:18 Isaiah 1:1 Hosea 1:1 Amos 1:1 2 Chronicles 27:1-9
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. See also: Psalms 11:4 Isaiah 1:2 Psalms 49:1-2 Psalms 50:7 Jeremiah 22:29
3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. See also: Amos 4:13 Isaiah 26:21 Deuteronomy 32:13 Psalms 115:3 Habakkuk 3:19
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. See also: Nahum 1:5 Psalms 97:5 Judges 5:4 Isaiah 64:1-3 Amos 9:5
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? See also: Jeremiah 2:19 Amos 8:14 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 1 Kings 13:32 2 Kings 17:7-23
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. See also: Ezekiel 13:14 Micah 3:12 2 Kings 19:25 Lamentations 4:1 Isaiah 25:2
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. See also: Deuteronomy 23:18 Hosea 2:12 Hosea 8:6 Hosea 10:5-6 Revelation 18:3
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. See also: Isaiah 20:2-4 Isaiah 22:4 Job 30:29 Psalms 102:6 Isaiah 13:21
9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 30:11-15 2 Chronicles 32:1-23 Isaiah 8:7-8 Jeremiah 15:18 Micah 1:12
10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. See also: 2 Samuel 1:20 Jeremiah 6:26 Joshua 18:23 Job 2:8 Lamentations 3:29
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. See also: Isaiah 20:4 Isaiah 16:2 Isaiah 47:2-3 Jeremiah 13:22 Jeremiah 48:6
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 14:19 Amos 3:6 Micah 1:9 Job 30:26 Isaiah 45:7
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. See also: 2 Kings 18:17 Joshua 10:3 2 Chronicles 32:9 Genesis 19:17 Exodus 32:21
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. See also: Joshua 15:44 2 Kings 16:8 Psalms 118:8-9 2 Samuel 8:2 2 Kings 18:14-16
15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel. See also: Joshua 15:44 1 Samuel 22:1 Joshua 15:35 Joshua 12:15 2 Chronicles 11:7
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. See also: Isaiah 22:12 Job 1:20 Jeremiah 7:29 Jeremiah 16:6 Amos 8:10