Micah:1

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* The Word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham , Ahaz , [and ] Hezekiah , kings of Judah , which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem . * Hear , all you people ; listen , O earth , and its fullness . And let the Lord GOD be witness against you , the Lord from His holy temple . * For behold , the LORD [is ] coming out of His place , and will come down and walk on the high places of the earth . * And the mountains shall melt under Him , and the valleys shall tear themselves , as wax before the fire , and as waters poured down a steep place . * All this [is ] for the transgression of Jacob , and for the sins of the house of Israel . What [is ] the transgression of Jacob ? [Is it ] not Samaria ? And what [are ] the high places of Judah ? [Are they ] not Jerusalem ? * And I will make Samaria into ruins of the field , planting places for a vineyard ; and I will pour down her stones into the valley , and I will uncover her foundations . * And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces , and all her gifts shall be burned with the fire , and I will destroy all its idols . For she gathered it from the reward of a harlot , and they shall return to the reward of a harlot . * Therefore I will wail and howl ; I will go stripped and naked ; I will make a wailing like jackals , mourn like the daughters of an ostrich . * For her wounds [are ] not curable ; for it has come to Judah ; it has reached to the gate of My people , to Jerusalem . * Do not declare [it ] in Gath ; weep not at all ; in the house of Leaphrah roll [in ] the dust . * Pass over to them , O dweller of Shaphir , in nakedness of shame . The dweller of Zaanan has not gone out ; the mourning of Beth-ezel shall take from you his standing . * For be grieved for good , the dweller of Maroth , for evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem . * O inhabitant of Lachish , bind the chariot to the stallion ; she [is ] the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion , for the sins of Israel were found in you . * Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath ; the houses of Achzib [are ] for a lying thing to the kings of Israel . * Yet I will bring an heir to you , O dweller of Mareshah . The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam . * Make yourself bald , and cut off [your hair ] for the sons of your delight ; make your baldness large like the eagle ; for they go into exile from you .

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