Micah 1

1Yahweh’s word that came to Micah of Morasheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Chr 27:1 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 7:9 · Jer 26:18 · Hos 1:1 · Hos 4:15 · +11 more

2Hear, you peoples, all of you! Listen, O earth, and all that is therein. Let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.Cross-references: Deut 32:1 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 24:1 · Ps 28:2 · Ps 49:1 · Ps 50:1 · +19 more

3For behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.Cross-references: Deut 32:13 · Deut 33:29 · Job 40:12 · Ps 115:3 · Isa 2:10 · Isa 25:10 · +7 more

4The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.Cross-references: Judg 5:4 · Ps 68:2 · Ps 97:5 · Isa 64:1 · Amos 9:5 · Nah 1:5 · +5 more

5“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem?Cross-references: 1Ki 13:32 · 2Ki 16:3 · 2Ki 16:10 · 2Ki 17:7 · 2Chr 28:2 · 2Chr 28:23 · +14 more

6Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:25 · Isa 25:2 · Isa 25:12 · Jer 9:11 · Jer 51:25 · Jer 51:37 · +7 more

7All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · Deut 9:21 · Deut 23:18 · 2Ki 23:14 · 2Chr 31:1 · 2Chr 34:6 · +10 more

8For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.Cross-references: Job 30:29 · Ps 102:6 · Isa 13:21 · Isa 16:9 · Isa 20:2 · Isa 21:3 · +6 more

9For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:9 · 2Chr 32:1 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 3:26 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 10:28 · +4 more

10Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.Cross-references: Josh 18:23 · 2Sam 1:20 · Job 2:8 · Jer 6:26 · Lam 3:29 · Amos 5:13 · +1 more

11Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.Cross-references: Isa 16:2 · Isa 20:4 · Isa 47:2 · Jer 13:22 · Jer 48:6 · Jer 48:9 · +4 more

12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ruth 1:20 · 1Sam 4:13 · Job 30:26 · Isa 45:7 · Isa 59:9 · Jer 8:15 · +3 more

13Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Ex 32:21 · Josh 10:3 · Josh 15:39 · 1Ki 13:33 · 1Ki 14:16 · +16 more

14Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.Cross-references: Josh 15:44 · 2Sam 8:2 · 2Ki 16:8 · 2Ki 18:14 · 2Chr 16:1 · Ps 62:9 · +4 more

15I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.Cross-references: Josh 12:15 · Josh 15:35 · Josh 15:44 · 1Sam 22:1 · 2Chr 11:7 · Isa 7:17 · +3 more

16Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you!Cross-references: Deut 28:41 · Deut 28:56 · 2Ki 17:6 · Job 1:20 · Isa 3:16 · Isa 15:2 · +7 more