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Micah 1:3-11

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3For behold, the Lord is coming forth from His place.

He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

4The 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 wrongdoing of Jacob

And the sins of the house of Israel.

What is the wrongdoing of Jacob?

Is it not Samaria?

What is the high place of Judah?

Is it not Jerusalem?

6For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country,

Planting places for a vineyard.

I will hurl her stones down into the valley,

And lay bare her foundations.

7All of her idols 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 prostitute’s earnings,

And to the earnings of a prostitute they will return.

8Because of this I must mourn and wail,

I must go barefoot and naked;

I must do mourning like the jackals,

And a mourning like the ostriches.

9For her wound is incurable,

For it has come to Judah;

It has reached the gate of my people,

Even to Jerusalem.

10Do not tell it in Gath,

Do not weep at all.

At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust in mourning.

11Go on your way, inhabitant of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.

The inhabitant of Zaanan does not escape.

The mourning of Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its support.”