Micah
1 The word of Yahweh which came unto Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah kings of Judah,—of which he had vision concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:—
2 Hear, ye peoples all of you Hearken, O earth and the fulness thereof,—And let My Lord Yahweh be among you for a witness, My Lord out of his holy temple.
3 For lo! Yahweh coming forth out of his place,—That he may descend and march along upon the high places of the earth.
4 Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, And the valleys be cleft,—As wax before the fire, As waters poured out in a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, And for the sin of the house of Israel,—Whose is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria’s? And whose is the sin of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem’s?
6 Therefore will I make of Samaria A heap in a field, The plantings in a vineyard,—And I will pour down into the valley her stones, And her foundations will I lay bare;
7 And all her images shall be beaten in pieces And all her rewards for unchastity shall be burned in the fire, And all her idols will I make a desolation,—For out of the reward of unchastity she gathered [them], And unto the reward of unchastity shall they return.
8 For this cause will I lament and howl, I will go stript and bare,—I will make a lamentation like the wild dogs, And a mourning like ostriches.
9 For dangerous are her wounds,—For she hath come as far as Judah, She hath reached as far as the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem.
10 In Gath do not tell, In Accho do not weep,—In Beth-l’aphrah roll yourselves in dust.
11 Pass thou over (for you), thou inhabitress of Shaphir, of disgraceful disclosure,—The inhabitress of Zaanan hath not gone forth, At the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall he take from you his station,
12 Though the inhabitress of Maroth waited for blessing,—Yet there came down calamity from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Bind the chariot to the steed, O inhabitress of Lachish,—The beginning of sin was she to the daughter of Zion, For in thee have been found the transgressions of Israel.
14 Therefore shalt thou give a dismission, against Moresheth-gath,—The houses of Achzib served for a deception to the kings of Israel.
15 The time shall yet be when the heir I will bring unto thee, O inhabitress of Mareshah,—As far as Adullam shall enter the glory of Israel.
16 Make thee bald and cut off thy hair, For the children of thy pleasures,—Enlarge thy baldness like a vulture, For they are exiled from thee.