The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiag, kings of Judah- the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Hear, O peoples, all of you, listen, O earth and all who are in it, that the Sovereign LORD may witness against you the Lord from his holy temple
Look! The LORD is coming from his swelling place, he comes down and treads tghe highj places of thee arth.
The mountains melt beneath him and teh valleys split apart. like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
All this is because of Jacob's transgression, because of the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's transgression? is it not Samaria? What is Judah's high place? Is it not Jerusalem?
"Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble. a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations.
All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire. I will destroy all her images, Since she gatered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as tehw ages of prostitutes they will again be used."
Because of this I will weep and wall: I will go about barefool and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like all owl.
For her wound is incurable; it has come to Judah. it has reached thev ery gate of my people even to Jerusalem itself.
Tell it nor in Gath, weep not at all. In Beth Ophrah roll in the dust.
Pass on in nakedness and shame, you who live in Shaphir. Those who live in Zaanan will not come out. Beth Ezel is in mounrning; its protection is taken from you.
Those who live in Maroth writhe in pain.waiting for relief, ebcause disaster has come from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
You who live in Lachish harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion. for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath.. The town of Aczib will prove deceptive to the kings of israel.
I will bring a conqueror against you who live in Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
Shave your heads in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourselves as bald as the bald as the vulture, for they will go from you into exile.
Micah 2
Woe tp tjose who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their p[ower to do it.
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance.
Therefore, the LORD says,"I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves, You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
In that day men will ridicule you, they will taunt you with this mournful song; We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns out fields to traitors."
Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide teh land by lot.
"Do not prophesy," their prophets say,"Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us."
Should it be said, O house of Jacob; "Is the Spirit of the LORD angry? Does he do such things?"
Lately my people hav risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a acare, like me returning from battle.
You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes, You take away my blessing from their children forever.
Get up go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all rerbedy.
If a liar andd eceiver comes ands ays. I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer, he would be just the prophet for this people!
"I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will surely bring together the remnant of israel, I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will through with people.
One who breaks open the way go up before them; they will break through theg ate and go our. Their king will pass through before them, the LORD at their head,"
Micah 3
Then I said,"Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of israel, Should you not know justice.
you who hate good and love evil who tear teh skin from my people and the flesh from their hones;
who eat my people's flesh,s trip off their skin and break their bones in pieces. who chop them up like meat for the pan like flesh for the pot?"
Then they will cry out nto the LORD, but he will not answer them, At that time he will hide his face from them because of thee vil they have done.
Tnhis is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray if one feeds them, they proclaim peace; if be does not they prepare to wage war against him
Therefore night will come over you, without visions and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets and the day will god ark for them.
The seers will be ashamed and teh diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God,"
But as for me, I am filled with power. with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin
Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of israel, who despise justice andd istort all that is right
who built Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wicledness,
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money, Yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us."
Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.