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title="Jonah 4">◄</a> Micah 1 <a href="../micah/2.htm" title="Micah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/micah/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.</p> <p class="heading">The Coming Destruction</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear, you peoples, all of you;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew all of them">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and let the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> be a witness against you,</span><br /><span class="indent">the Lord from his holy temple.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For behold, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is coming out of his place,</span><br /><span class="indent">and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the mountains will melt under him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the valleys will split open,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like wax before the fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">like waters poured down a steep place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All this is for the transgression of Jacob</span><br /><span class="indent">and for the sins of the house of Israel.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">What is the transgression of Jacob?</span><br /><span class="indent">Is it not Samaria?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">And what is the high place of Judah?</span><br /><span class="indent">Is it not Jerusalem?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,</span><br /><span class="indent">a place for planting vineyards,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will pour down her stones into the valley</span><br /><span class="indent">and uncover her foundations.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,</span><br /><span class="indent">all her wages shall be burned with fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all her idols I will lay waste,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For this I will lament and wail;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will go stripped and naked;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will make lamentation like the jackals,</span><br /><span class="indent">and mourning like the ostriches.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For her wound is incurable,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it has come to Judah;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">it has reached to the gate of my people,</span><br /><span class="indent">to Jerusalem.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Tell it not in Gath;</span><br /><span class="indent">weep not at all;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">in Beth-le-aphrah</span><br /><span class="indent">roll yourselves in the dust.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Pass on your way,</span><br /><span class="indent">inhabitants of Shaphir,</span><br /><span class="indent">in nakedness and shame;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the inhabitants of Zaanan</span><br /><span class="indent">do not come out;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the lamentation of Beth-ezel</span><br /><span class="indent">shall take away from you its standing place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the inhabitants of Maroth</span><br /><span class="indent">wait anxiously for good,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because disaster has come down from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="indent">to the gate of Jerusalem.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Harness the steeds to the chariots,</span><br /><span class="indent">inhabitants of Lachish;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">it was the beginning of sin</span><br /><span class="indent">to the daughter of Zion,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for in you were found</span><br /><span class="indent">the transgressions of Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore you shall give parting gifts<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or give dowry">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">to Moresheth-gath;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing</span><br /><span class="indent">to the kings of Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will again bring a conqueror to you,</span><br /><span class="indent">inhabitants of Mareshah;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the glory of Israel</span><br /><span class="indent">shall come to Adullam.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the children of your delight;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">make yourselves as bald as the eagle,</span><br /><span class="indent">for they shall go from you into exile.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">all of</span> them</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">give</span> dowry</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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