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1:1  Yahweh spoke his word to Micah, who was from Moresheth, when Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah. This is the vision that Micah saw about Samaria and Jerusalem.
1:2  Listen, all you people! Pay attention, earth and all who are on it. Adonay Yahweh will be a witness against you. Adonay will be a witness from his holy temple.
1:3  Yahweh is going to come from his place. He is going to come down and step on the worship places of the earth.
1:4  Mountains will melt under him like wax near a fire. Valleys will split apart like water pouring down a steep hill.
1:5  All this is because of Jacob’s crime and Israel’s sin. What is Jacob’s crime? Isn’t it Samaria? What is Judah’s worship place? Isn’t it Jerusalem?
1:6  So I will turn Samaria into a pile of rubble, a place for planting vineyards. I will roll its stones down into a valley and expose its foundations.
1:7  All its idols will be smashed to pieces. All its wages for being a prostitute will be burned. All its statues will be turned into a pile of rubble. Samaria collected its wages for being a prostitute. That money will again pay for prostitutes.
1:8  I will mourn and cry because of this. I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will cry like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
1:9  Samaria’s wounds are incurable. The news about Samaria will come to Judah. It will reach the gates of my people in Jerusalem.
1:10  Don’t report it in Gath. Don’t cry there. Roll in the dust of Beth Leaphrah.
1:11  Pass by, naked and ashamed, inhabitants of Shaphir. Don’t come out, inhabitants of Zaanan. Beth Ezel is in mourning. It will take its support away from you.
1:12  Wait anxiously for good, inhabitants of Maroth. From Yahweh disaster will come on the gates of Jerusalem.
1:13  Harness the horses to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish. You were the first to lead the people of Zion into sin. The rebellious acts of Israel are found in you.
1:14  That is why you will give farewell gifts to Moresheth Gath. The town of Achzib will betray the kings of Israel.
1:15  I will again bring a conqueror against the inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
1:16  Shave your head in mourning for the children you love. Make yourselves as bald as vultures because your children will be taken from you into exile.