Micah 1:1-7

Destruction in Israel and Judah

¹The word of the Lord which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and which he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.

2Hear, you peoples, all of you;

Listen carefully, earth and all it contains,

And may the Lord God be a witness against you,

The Lord from His holy temple.

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.