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 the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem.

2 Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.

3 For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.

4 And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

5 All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

6 So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.

7 And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.

8 For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

9 For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10 Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.

11 Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

12 For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

13 Let the war-carriage be yoked to the quick-running horse, you who are living in Lachish: she was the first cause of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the wrongdoings of Israel were seen in you.

14 For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.

15 Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.

16 Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.