Micah 1 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

2Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and

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Hebrew the fulness thereof.

all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness

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Or, among

against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

3For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

4And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

5For 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?

6Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations thereof.

7And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.

8For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

9For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at

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That is, A house of dust.

Beth-le-aphrah

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Another reading is, roll thyself

have I rolled myself in the dust.

11Pass away, O

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Hebrew inhabitress.

inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the

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Hebrew inhabitress.

inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the

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Or, standing-place

stay thereof.

12For the

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Hebrew inhabitress.

inhabitant of Maroth

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Or, is in travail for

waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

13Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O

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Hebrew inhabitress.

inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

14Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be

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Hebrew achzab.

a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

15I will yet bring unto thee, O

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Hebrew inhabitress.

inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.

16Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the

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Or, vulture

eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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Pink strikethrough: in MACULA Hebrew WLC qere (validated against OSHB), omitted from the ASV-selected Hebrew reading. Green underline: in the ASV-selected reading, absent from MACULA Hebrew WLC qere (validated against OSHB).

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