Micah 1:1-9

1The 1word of the Lord which came to 2Micah of Moresheth in the days of 3Jotham, 4Ahaz, and 5Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and which he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.2Hear, you peoples, all of 6you; 7Listen carefully, earth and 8all it contains, And may the Lord 9God be a 10witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.3For behold, the Lord is 11coming forth from His place. He will come down and 12tread on the high places of the 13earth.414The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.5All this is due to the 15wrongdoing of Jacob And the sins of the house of Israel. What is the 1617wrongdoing of Jacob? Is it not 18Samaria? What is the 19high 20place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?6For I will make Samaria a 21heap of ruins 22in the open country, 23Planting places for a vineyard. I will 24hurl her stones down into the valley, And 25lay bare her foundations.7All of her 26idols will be crushed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire, And all of her images I will make desolate; For she collected them from a 27prostitute’s earnings, And to the earnings of a prostitute they will return.

8Because of this I must mourn and wail, I must go 28barefoot and naked; I must do mourning like the 29jackals, And a mourning like the ostriches.9For her 30wound is incurable, For 31it has come to Judah; It has reached the 32gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.