Micah 1:6-16

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⁶Therefore I will make ^(A)Samaria ^(B)a heap in the open country,
    a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones ^(C)into the valley
    and ^(D)uncover her foundations.
⁷All ^(E)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    ^(F)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from ^(G)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

⁸^(H)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go ^(I)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation ^(J)like the jackals,
    and mourning ^(K)like the ostriches.
⁹^(L)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

¹⁰^(M)Tell it not in ^(N)Gath;
    weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
    ^(O)roll yourselves in the dust.
¹¹Pass on your way,
    inhabitants of Shaphir,
    ^(P)in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
    do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
    shall take away from you its standing place.
¹²For the inhabitants of Maroth
    wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down ^(Q)from the Lord
    to the gate of Jerusalem.
¹³Harness the steeds to the chariots,
    inhabitants of ^(R)Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
    to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
    ^(S)the transgressions of Israel.
¹⁴Therefore you shall give parting gifts^[a]
    to ^(T)Moresheth-gath;
the houses of ^(U)Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
    to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵I will again bring ^(V)a conqueror to you,
    inhabitants of ^(W)Mareshah;
the glory of Israel
    shall come to ^(X)Adullam.
¹⁶^(Y)Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
    for the children of your delight;
^(Z)make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
    for they shall go from you into exile.