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Attend, O earth, and its fullness, "" And Lord YHWH is against you for a witness, "" The Lord from His holy temple.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For behold, YHWH is going out from His place, "" And He has come down, "" And has trodden on high places of earth.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The mountains have been melted under Him, "" And the valleys split themselves, "" As wax from the presence of fire, "" As waters cast down by a slope.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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 the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“And I have set Samaria for a heap of the field, "" For plantations of a vineyard, "" And poured out into a valley her stones, "" And her foundations I uncover.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And all her carved images are beaten down, "" And all her wages are burned with fire, "" And all her idols I make a desolation, "" For from the wage of a harlot she gathered, and to the wage of a harlot they return.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For this I lament and howl, "" I go spoiled and naked, "" I make a lamentation like dragons, "" And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For mortal [are] her wounds, "" For it has come to Judah, "" It has come to a gate of My people—to Jerusalem.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In Gath do not tell—in Acco do not weep, "" In Beth-Aphrah, roll yourself in dust.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Pass over for you, O inhabitant of Shaphir, "" Naked one of shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not gone out, "" The lamentation of Beth-Ezel takes from you its standing.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For the inhabitant of Maroth has stayed for good, "" For calamity has come down from YHWH to the gate of Jerusalem.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Bind the chariot to a swift beast, O inhabitant of Lachish, "" The beginning of sin [is] she to the daughter of Zion, "" For in you have been found the transgressions of Israel.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore you give presents to Moresheth-Gath, "" The houses of Achzib become a lying thing to the kings of Israel.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Yet I bring the possessor to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, "" The glory of Israel comes to Adullam.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Make bald and shave, for your delightful sons, "" Enlarge your baldness as an eagle, "" For they have removed from you! <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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