And the mountains shall melt under him (so shall the valleys cleave) as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured downward.

For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel: what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not [a]Samaria? and which are the high [b]places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem?

Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble down into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:5 Samaria, which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice, was the puddle, and stews of all idolatry and corruption, and boasted themselves of their father Jacob.
  2. Micah 1:5 That is, the idolatry and infection.

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