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The word of Jehovah that was to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, in which he had a vision concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
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Let the peoples hear, all of them; attend, O earth, and all the fullness thereof; and let the Lord Jehovih be witness against you, the Lord from the temple of His holiness.
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For, behold, Jehovah comes out from His place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
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And the mountains shall be melted beneath Him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, and as waters flowing down in going down.
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All this is on account of the transgression of Jacob, and on account of 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?
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And I will set Samaria as a heap of the field, as plantings of a vineyard; and I will make her stones flow down to the ravine, and I will reveal her foundations.
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And all her graven images shall be beaten in pieces, and all her meretricious hires shall be burned up with the fire, and all her idols will I set desolate; for she brought it together from the hire of a harlot, and they shall return, even to the hire of a harlot.
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Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing as the dragons, and mourning as the daughters of the owl.
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For her wound is desperate; for it has come even to Judah; it has reached even to the gate of My people, even to Jerusalem.
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In Gath you shall not tell it, weeping you shall not weep in the house of Aphrah; roll thyself around in the dust.
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Pass by for yourselves; she who dwells in Saphir is with the nakedness of shame; she who dwells in Zaanan came not out in the wailing of Bethezel; he shall take from you his standing.
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For she who dwells in Maroth travailed for good; but evil came down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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O thou, she who dwells in Lachish, bind the chariot to the racer; she is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath; the houses of Achzib shall be for a lie to the kings of Israel.
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Yet will I bring an heir to thee, O thou who dwellest in Mareshah; even to Adullam the glory of Israel shall come.
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Make thyself bald, and shear thyself on account of thy delightful sons; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they have gone into exile from thee.
