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    Micah · 16 verses

    Micah 1

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    Samaria’s punishment ends in a remarkably awkward financial afterlife: the wages she gathered as a prostitute are assigned to another prostitute, while her stones are poured into a valley and her foundations exposed.

    The LORD comes downvv. 1–9

    Micah receives the word of the LORD in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The LORD leaves His dwelling place, treads the high places, and turns mountains to melting wax and valleys to rushing water. Samaria is named as Jacob’s transgression and Jerusalem as Judah’s high place; Samaria will become rubble, her images will be smashed, her wages burned, and then—because they were gathered as a prostitute’s wages—used again on a prostitute. Micah answers with an astonishingly physical lament: barefoot, naked, howling like a jackal and mourning like an ostrich. The wound has reached Judah and is already approaching Jerusalem.

    A procession of bad newsvv. 10–16

    The oracle suddenly becomes a string of instructions to towns. Gath is not to hear the news; Beth-leaphrah is to receive dust; Shaphir must leave in shameful nakedness; Zaanan will not come out; Beth-ezel mourns because its support is gone. Maroth longs for good, but calamity reaches the gate of Jerusalem. Lachish is told to harness its chariot horses, Moresheth-gath receives farewell gifts, Achzib proves deceptive to Israel’s kings, and a conqueror is brought against Mareshah. The chapter ends with heads shaved in mourning for precious children who will go into exile, while the glory of Israel comes to Adullam.

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    1. Mic 1:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:

    2. Mic 1:2Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

    3. Mic 1:3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

    4. Mic 1:4The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

    5. Mic 1:5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

    6. Mic 1:6Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

    7. Mic 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

    8. Mic 1:8Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

    9. Mic 1:9For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

    10. Mic 1:10Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

    11. Mic 1:11Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.

    12. Mic 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

    13. Mic 1:13Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

    14. Mic 1:14Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.

    15. Mic 1:15I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

    16. Mic 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

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    • 1Jeremiah 26:18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
    • 3Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
    • 1Isaiah 1:1This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
    • 3Isaiah 26:21For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
    • 4Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
    • 4Psalms 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
    • 6Ezekiel 13:14I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
    • 7Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
    • 1Hosea 1:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.
    • 2Psalms 11:4The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
    • 2Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
    • 5Amos 8:14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
    • 5Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
    • 102 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
    • 12Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
    • 14Joshua 15:44Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah—nine cities, along with their villages.

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