The LORD is coming!

¹The LORD ’s word that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Judah’s Kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:

²Listen, all you peoples!

May the LORD God be a witness against you,

³Look! The LORD is coming out from his place;

⁴Then the mountains will melt under him;

⁵All this is for the crime of Jacob

⁶So I will make Samaria a pile of rubble in the open field,

I will pour her stones into the valley;

⁷All her images will be beaten to pieces;

I will make all her idols worthless.

⁸On account of this, I will cry out and howl;

I will cry out like the jackals,

Destruction looms

⁹Indeed, Zion has been weakened by her wounds!

he has struck as far as the gate of my people,

¹⁰In Gath tell it not; no need to weep there![#1.10 Heb lacks]

¹¹Pass by (for your sake), inhabitants of Shaphir![#1.11 (plural)]

The cry of Beth-ezel

¹²How she longs for good, inhabitants of Maroth!

¹³Harness the horses to the chariot, inhabitants of Lachish!

¹⁴Therefore, you will give good-bye gifts to Moresheth-gath;

¹⁵Again I will bring to you the one who conquers, inhabitants of Mareshah;

¹⁶Make yourself bald and cut off your hair