1:1 A word of Jehovah that hath been unto Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, that he hath seen concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:
1:2 Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fulness, And the LordJehovah is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.
1:3 For lo, Jehovah is going out from His place, And He hath come down, And hath trodden on high places of earth.
1:4 Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.
1:7 And all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.
1:8 For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.
1:10 In Gath tell ye not -- in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dustroll thyself.
1:11 Pass over for thee, O inhabitant of Shaphir, Naked one of shame. Not gone out hath the inhabitant of Zaanan, The lamentation of Beth-Ezel doth take from you its standing.
