1 Die woord van die HERE wat tot Miga, die Morastiet, gekom het, in die dae van Jotam, Agas, Hisk¡a, konings van Juda; wat hy gesien het aangaande Samar¡a en Jerusalem.

2 o Volke, luister almal saam! o Aarde en sy volheid, let op! Sodat die Here HERE getuie teen julle kan wees, die Here uit sy heilige paleis.

3 Want kyk, die HERE gaan uit sy woonplek uit, en Hy daal neer en betree die hoogtes van die aarde.

4 En die berge smelt onder Hom, en die laagtes skeur oop, soos was voor die vuur, soos water wat langs 'n helling afstroom!

5 Dit alles vanweë die oortreding van Jakob en vanweë die sondes van die huis van Israel. Wie is die oorsaak van die oortreding van Jakob? Is dit nie Samar¡a nie? En wie is die oorsaak van die hoogtes van Juda? Is dit nie Jerusalem nie?

6 Daarom sal Ek Samar¡a 'n puinhoop maak op die veld, 'n plek om wingerdstokke te plant; en Ek sal haar klippe in die dal laat afrol en haar fondamente blootlê.

7 En al haar gesnede beelde sal stukkend geslaan en al wat sy as hoereloon ontvang het, met vuur verbrand word, en al haar afgode sal Ek tot 'n verwoesting maak; want uit hoereloon het sy dit versamel, en tot hoereloon sal dit terugkeer.

8 Daaroor wil ek rouklaag en huil, kaalvoet en naak loop. Ek wil klae soos die jakkalse en treur soos die volstruise.

9 Waarlik, haar wonde is ongeneeslik; want dit het gekom tot by Juda, dit reik tot aan die poort van my volk, tot by Jerusalem.

10 Moet dit nie in Gat vertel nie, ween daar ganselik nie! In Bet-Ofra het ek my in die stof gewentel!

11 Trek weg in smadelike naaktheid, o inwoners van Safir! Die inwoners van Sa„nan trek nie uit nie. Die weeklagte van Bet-Haësel sal julle daar die verblyf ontneem.

12 Want die inwoners van Marot wag in pyn op iets goeds, omdat onheil neerdaal van die HERE na die poort van Jerusalem.

13 Span die perde voor die wa, o inwoners van Lagis! Dit was die begin van sonde vir die dogter van Sion, dat die oortredinge van Israel in jou gevind is.

14 Daarom moet jy 'n afskeidsgeskenk gee aan Mor,set-Gat; die huise van Agsib sal 'n teleurstelling wees vir die konings van Israel.

15 Nogmaals sal Ek jou 'n veroweraar bring, o inwoner van Mar,sa; die adel van Israel sal tot by Adullam kom.

16 Maak 'n kaalte op jou hoof en skeer jou weens jou troetelkinders; maak die kaalplek groot soos die van 'n aasvoël, omdat hulle van jou af weggevoer is in ballingskap.

1 The 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.

2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. 3 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4 And 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. 5 For 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? 6 Therefore 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. 7 And 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.

8 For 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. 9 For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 10 Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust. 11 Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof. 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem. 13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. 14 Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel. 15 I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam. 16 Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.