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Micah 1:6-8
Evangelical Heritage Version

6 That is why I have sentenced Samaria to become
        a heap of ruins in the open countryside,
        a place where someone might plant a vineyard.
    I have hurled down its stones into the valley.[a]
    I will expose its foundation.
7 All her carved idols will be crushed,
    and all her wages will be burned with fire.
    I will sentence all her useless images to destruction.
    Because she collected a prostitute’s wages to obtain them,
    they will become a prostitute’s wages again.

Micah’s Mourning

8 Because of this I must lament and grieve.
    I must walk barefoot and naked.
    I must howl like a jackal
    and make a mourning shriek like an ostrich,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:6 Though the events described in verse 6 still lay in the future as Micah was writing about them, the Hebrew verbs express past time, indicating that the events were already determined by God.
  2. Micah 1:8 Or perhaps a type of owl
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