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[1]The word of the Lord, that came unto Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria, and Jerusalem.
[2]Hear, all ye people: hearken thou, O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witness against you, even the Lord from his holy temple.
[3]For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
[4]And the mountains shall melt under him (so shall the valleys cleave) as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured downward.
[5]For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel: what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not Samaria? And which are the high places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem?
[6]Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble down into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
[7]And all the graven images thereof shall be broken, and all the gifts thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I destroy: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the wages of an harlot.
[8]Therefore I will mourn and howl: I will go without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.
[9]For her plagues are grievous: for it is come into Judah: the enemy is come unto the gate of my people, unto Jerusalem.
[10]Declare ye it not at Gath, neither weep ye: for the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
[11]Thou that dwellest at Saphir, go together naked with shame: she that dwelleth at Zaanan, shall not come forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel: the enemy shall receive of you for his standing.
[12]For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.
[13]O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the beasts of price: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
[14]Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth Gath: the houses of Achzib shall be as a lie to the kings of Israel.
[15]Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, he shall come unto Adullam, the glory of Israel.
[16]Make thee bald: and shave thee for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.
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