Micah 1

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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: ✦ 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. ✦ ³For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. ✦ ⁴The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope. ✦ 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? ✦ 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. ✦ 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. ✦ 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. ✦ ⁹For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself. ✦ ¹⁰Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah. ✦ 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. ✦ ¹²For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem. ✦ 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. ✦ ¹⁴Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel. ✦ ¹⁵I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam. ✦ 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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Where this chapter connects

Mic 1 ·6 Rev 2 ·6 Jer 6 ·4 Jer 9 ·4 2 Kgs 16 ·4 2 Kgs 18 ·4 Josh 15 ·4 Rev 18 ·4

Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

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CommentaryEnduring Word — Micah 1David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
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