1The 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. 2Hear, all ye peoples; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and the Lord GOD, the Lord from his holy temple shall be [a] witness against you. 3For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4And the mountains shall melt under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, [and] as the waters [that] run down a steep place. 5All this for the rebellion of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the rebellion of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem? 6Therefore I will make Samaria into heaps in the field, into a land of vineyards: and I will scatter her stones throughout the valley, and I will uncover her foundations. 7And all her graven images shall be broken to pieces, and all her gifts shall be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols, for she gathered [it] of the gifts of harlots, and they shall return unto gifts of harlots. 8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls. 9For her wound [is] painful, for it is come unto Judah; it is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem. 10Do not declare [it] in Gath, weep little; roll thyself in the dust for the house of Aphrah. 11Pass away naked with shame, thou inhabitant of Saphir: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not come forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you for his lateness. 12For the inhabitant of Maroth was pained because of good; therefore evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. 13O thou inhabitant of Lachish, hitch the chariot to dromedaries: for thou [wert] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion, for in thee the rebellions of Israel were invented. 14Therefore shalt thou give gifts to Moreshethgath; the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of Israel. 15Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come unto Adullam. 16Make thee bald, and shave thee for the sons of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.: