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.

1 Verbum Domini, quod factum est ad Micham Morasthitea, in diebus Joathan, Achaz, et Ezechi, regum Juda, quod vidit super Samariam et Jerusalem.2 [Audite, populi omnes,et attendat terra, et plenitudo ejus :et sit Dominus Deus vobis in testem,Dominus de templo sancto suo.3 Quia ecce Dominus egredietur de loco suo,et descendet, et calcabit super excelsa terr.4 Et consumentur montes subtus eum,et valles scindentur sicut cera a facie ignis,et sicut aqu qu decurrunt in prceps.5 In scelere Jacob omne istud,et in peccatis domus Isral.Quod scelus Jacob ? nonne Samaria ?et qu excelsa Jud ? nonne Jerusalem ?6 Et ponam Samariam quasi acervum lapidum in agro,cum plantatur vinea ;et detraham in vallem lapides ejus,et fundamenta ejus revelabo.7 Et omnia sculptilia ejus concidentur,et omnes mercedes ejus comburentur igne,et omnia idola ejus ponam in perditionem,quia de mercedibus meretricis congregata sunt,et usque ad mercedem meretricis revertentur.8 Super hoc plangam, et ululabo ;vadam spoliatus, et nudus ;faciam planctum velut draconum,et luctum quasi struthionum :9 quia desperata est plaga ejus,quia venit usque ad Judam ;tetigit portam populi mei usque ad Jerusalem.10 In Geth nolite annuntiare ;lacrimis ne ploretis ;in domo pulveris pulvere vos conspergite.11 Et transite vobis, habitatio pulchra, confusa ignominia :non est egressa qu habitat in exitu :planctum domus vicina accipiet ex vobis, qu stetit sibimet.12 Quia infirmata est in bonum,qu habitat in amaritudinibus ;quia descendit malum a Domino in portam Jerusalem.13 Tumultus quadrig stuporis habitanti Lachis :principium peccati est fili Sion,quia in te inventa sunt scelera Isral.14 Propterea dabit emissarios super hreditatem Geth,domus mendacii in deceptionem regibus Isral.15 Adhuc hredem adducam tibi qu habitas in Maresa ;usque ad Odollam veniet gloria Isral.16 Decalvare, et tondere super filios deliciarum tuarum ;dilata calvitium tuum sicut aquila,quoniam captivi ducti sunt ex te.]