1 The 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:
2 Listen, all you peoples!Pay attention, earth, and all that fills it!May the Lord God be a witness against you,the Lord from his holy temple.
3 Look! The Lord is coming out from his place;he will go down and tread on the shrines of the earth.
4 Then the mountains will melt under him;the valleys will split apart,like wax yielding to the fire,like waters poured down a slope.
5 All this is for the crime of Jacoband the sins of the house of Israel.Who is responsible for the crime of Jacob?Isn’t it Samaria?Who is responsible for the shrines of Judah?Isn’t it Jerusalem?
6 So I will make Samaria a pile of rubble in the open field,a place for planting vineyards.I will pour her stones into the valley;her foundations I will lay bare.
7 All her images will be beaten to pieces;all her wages will be burned;I will make all her idols worthless.Since she gathered them from the wages of a prostitute,they will again become wages of a prostitute.