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Micah
1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the
Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings
of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that
therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the
LORD from his holy temple.
Judgment Against Samaria
and Jerusalem
1:3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place,
and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the
earth.
1:4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the
valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the
waters that are poured down a steep place.
1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for 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?
1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field,
and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the
stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the
foundations thereof.
1:7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to
pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the
fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she
gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return
to the hire of an harlot.
Weeping and Mourning
1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and
naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning
as the owls.
1:9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah;
he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
1:10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the
house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
1:11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy
shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the
mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for
good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of
Jerusalem.
1:13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the
swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter
of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in
thee.
1:14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath:
the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of
Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
1:16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate
children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are
gone into captivity from thee. |
Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
