Chapter 1
1 The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple!
Deuteronomy 32:3; Psalm 11:4; Psalm 50:7; Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 1:2; Jonah 2:7; Habakkuk 2:20; Malachi 3:5;
3 For behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 115:3; Isaiah 26:21; Amos 4:13;
4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.
Judges 5:5; Psalm 97:5; Isaiah 64:-2; Amos 9:5; Habakkuk 3:6; Habakkuk 3:10;
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. Whence is the transgression of Jacob? is it not [from] Samaria? And whence are the high places of Judah? are they not [from] Jerusalem?
6 Therefore will I make Samaria as a heap of the field, as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will lay bare the foundations thereof.
2 Kings 19:25; Ezekiel 13:14; Micah 3:12;
7 And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her harlot-gifts shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I make a desolation; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered [them], and to a harlot's hire shall they return.
8 For this will I lament, and I will howl; I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
Job 30:29; Psalm 102:6; Isaiah 20:-2; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 4:19;
9 For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 18:13; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8;
10 Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
11 Pass away, inhabitress of Shaphir, in nakedness [and] shame. The inhabitress of Zaanan is not come forth for the lamentation of Beth-ezel: he will take from you its shelter.
Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 47:2; Isaiah 47:3; Jeremiah 13:22; Nahum 3:5;
12 For the inhabitress of Maroth waited anxiously for good; but evil hath come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitress of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.
14 Therefore shalt thou give parting-gifts to Moresheth-Gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
Joshua 15:44; 2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Kings 18:-2;
15 I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
Joshua 15:44; 2 Chronicles 11:7;
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Job 1:20; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 47:5; Jeremiah 48:37; Lamentations 4:5;