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Micah 1:2-9
New King James Version
Micah 1:2-9
New King James Version
The Coming Judgment on Israel
2 Hear, all you peoples!
Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!
Let the Lord God be a witness against you,
The Lord from (A)His holy temple.
3 For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place;
He will come down
And tread on the high places of the earth.
4 (B)The mountains will melt under Him,
And the valleys will split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.
5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob
And for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what are the (C)high places of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?
6 “Therefore I will make Samaria (D)a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will (E)uncover her foundations.
7 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her (F)pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the (G)pay of a harlot.”
Mourning for Israel and Judah
8 Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(H)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
9 For her wounds are incurable.
For (I)it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.
Micah 1:2-9
New International Version
Micah 1:2-9
New International Version
2 Hear,(A) you peoples, all of you,(B)
listen, earth(C) and all who live in it,
that the Sovereign Lord may bear witness(D) against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.(E)
Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem
3 Look! The Lord is coming from his dwelling(F) place;
he comes down(G) and treads on the heights of the earth.(H)
4 The mountains melt(I) beneath him(J)
and the valleys split apart,(K)
like wax before the fire,
like water rushing down a slope.
5 All this is because of Jacob’s transgression,
because of the sins of the people of Israel.
What is Jacob’s transgression?
Is it not Samaria?(L)
What is Judah’s high place?
Is it not Jerusalem?
6 “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,
a place for planting vineyards.(M)
I will pour her stones(N) into the valley
and lay bare her foundations.(O)
7 All her idols(P) will be broken to pieces;(Q)
all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;
I will destroy all her images.(R)
Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,(S)
as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”
Weeping and Mourning
Micah 1:2-9
King James Version
Micah 1:2-9
King James Version
2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
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