Micah 1:1-9

Common English Bible

² Listen, all you peoples!
        Pay attention, earth, and all that fills it!
    May the Lord God be a witness against you,
            the Lord from his holy temple.
³ Look! The Lord is coming out from his place;
        he will go down and tread on the shrines of the earth.
⁴ Then the mountains will melt under him;
        the valleys will split apart,
            like wax yielding to the fire,
            like waters poured down a slope.
⁵ All this is for the crime of Jacob
        and the sins of the house of Israel.
        Who is responsible for the crime of Jacob?^[a]
                Isn’t it Samaria?
            Who is responsible for^[b] the shrines of Judah?
                Isn’t it Jerusalem?
⁶ So I will make Samaria a pile of rubble in the open field,
        a place for planting vineyards.
    I will pour her stones into the valley;
        her foundations I will lay bare.
⁷ All her images will be beaten to pieces;
        all her wages will be burned;
    I will make all her idols worthless.
        Since she gathered them from the wages of a prostitute,
            they will again become wages of a prostitute.
⁸ On account of this, I will cry out and howl;
        I will go about barefoot and stripped.
    I will cry out like the jackals,
        and mourn like the ostriches.

⁹ Indeed, Zion has been weakened by her wounds!
            It has come as far as Judah;
    he has struck as far as the gate of my people,
            as far as Jerusalem.