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

The Coming Judgment on Israel

²Hear, all you peoples!
Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!
Let the Lord God be a witness against you,
The Lord from ⚓His holy temple.
³For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place;
He will come down
And tread on the high places of the earth.
⁴⚓The mountains will melt under Him,
And the valleys will split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.
⁵All this is for the transgression of Jacob
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 ⚓a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will ⚓uncover her foundations.
⁷All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her ⚓pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the ⚓pay of a harlot.”

Mourning for Israel and Judah

⁸Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
⚓I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
⁹For her wounds are incurable.
For ⚓it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.
¹⁰⚓Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all;
In Beth Aphrah
Roll yourself in the dust.
¹¹Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;
The inhabitant of Zaanan does not go out.
Beth Ezel mourns;
Its place to stand is taken away from you.
¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good,
But ⚓disaster came down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.
¹³O inhabitant of ⚓Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were ⚓found in you.
¹⁴Therefore you shall ⚓give presents to Moresheth Gath;
The houses of ⚓Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of ⚓Mareshah;
The glory of Israel shall come to ⚓Adullam.
¹⁶Make yourself ⚓bald and cut off your hair,
Because of your ⚓precious children;
Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,
For they shall go from you into ⚓captivity.

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Quaj ntsuag Xamali thiab Yeluxalees

¹No yog tej lus uas Yawmsaub hais tuaj rau Mikha uas yog neeg hauv lub moos Maulese rau thaum Yauthas, Aha thiab Hexekhiya ua vajntxwv kav Yuda tebchaws, yog tej lus uas Mikha pom txog Xamali thiab Yeluxalees.

²Ib tsoom neeg txhua tus 'e,
cia li tig ntsej mloog,
lub qab ntuj 'e thiab txhua yam
uas nyob hauv cia li mloog.
Cia Vajtswv Yawmsaub ua timkhawv kom nej,
yog tus Tswv⚓ uas hais
hauv nws lub tuam tsev dawb huv tuaj.
³Saib nawj, Yawmsaub tawm hauv nws lub chaw los,
nws yuav nqes los tsuj mus los
saum tej chaw siab hauv lub ntiajteb.
⁴Tej roob yuav yaj tag rau hauv nws qab
thiab tej hav yuav tawg pes rhe,
yam nkaus li ciab ntab yaj ntawm hluavtaws
thiab yam li tej dej
uas ntws ntawm tej toj ntxhab los.
⁵Tej xwm txheej no huvsi
yog tim Yakhauj tej kev fav xeeb
thiab tim Yixayee caj ces tej kev txhaum txim.
Yakhauj tej kev fav xeeb yog dabtsi?
Tsis yog lub nroog Xamali lov?
Yuda caj ces lub chaw siab teev dab yog dabtsi?
Tsis yog lub nroog Yeluxalees lov?
⁶“Vim li no kuv yuav ua rau Xamali pob
ua tej niag pawg ciaj hav nroj,
yuav ua chaw cog vaj txiv hmab.
Kuv yuav muab tej pob zeb uas tsim lub nroog ntawd
nchuav rau hauv tej khuab ha,
mas yuav pom tej taw uas tiag lub nroog.
⁷Tej dab mlom huvsi hauv lub nroog ntawd
yuav raug muab tsoo ua tej dwb daim.
Tej uas muab xyeem rau hauv tej tsev dab
yuav raug muab hlawv pov tseg,
thiab kuv yuav muab tej dab mlom
ua kom piam tag huvsi.
Tej dab mlom ntawd yog Xamali muab
cov nqe ua poj muag cev sau zog yuav los,
mas yuav rov mus ua nqe ntiav poj muag cev.”

⁸Vim li no kuv yuav quaj ntsuag thiab quaj nyiav,
kuv yuav mus mus los los
liab qab tsuas tsis rau khau.
Kuv yuav quaj ntsuag yam li hma nqov ntuj,
thiab kuv yuav quaj lwj siab ntsuav
yam li noog ntxhuav.
⁹Xamali tej kiav txhab kho tsis tau li
thiab kis tuaj txog Yuda lawm,
twb los txog ntawm kuv haiv neeg lub rooj loog,
uas yog Yeluxalees ntag.
¹⁰Tsis txhob piav zaj no rau hauv lub moos Ka,⚓
tsis txhob quaj kiag li.
Cia li da luj luam rau hauv tej hmoov av
ntawm lub moos Npe Le‑ala.⚓
¹¹Cov neeg hauv lub moos Safi⚓ cia li taug
nej txojkev liab qab tsuas thiab txaj muag.
Cov neeg hauv lub moos Xana⚓ tsis tawm los.
Lub moos Npe‑exee quaj nyiav,
nej thiaj tsis tau chaw cawm siav
rau qhov ntawd lawm.
¹²Cov neeg hauv lub moos Malau⚓
tos qhov zoo qhuav siab qhawv,
vim yog Yawmsaub tso tej xwm txheej phem
los txog ntawm rooj loog Yeluxalees lawm.
¹³Cov neeg hauv lub moos Lakhi 'e,⚓
cia li muab nees nruab rau tej tsheb ua rog.
Nej xub ua txhaum thiaj coj kev txhaum los
rau hauv Xi‑oo tus ntxhais,⚓
rau qhov Yixayee tej kev fav xeeb
muaj nyob hauv nej nruab nrab.
¹⁴Vim li no nej yuav muab tshav ntuj
xa lub moos Mauleseka mus,
thiab lub moos Axij⚓ tej vaj tse
yuav tsis ua chaw vam khom
rau Yixayee tej vajntxwv.
¹⁵Cov neeg hauv lub moos Malesa 'e,⚓
kuv yuav coj tus uas kov yeej los ntaus nej.
Tus uas yog Yixayee lub koob meej⚓
yuav los rau hauv lub moos Adulas.
¹⁶Cia li chais nej cov plaubhau kom do cuas
quaj ntsuag nej tej menyuam
uas nej nyiam kawg.
Cia li ua rau nej do hau ib yam li dav noj twm,
rau qhov lawv yuav ncaim nej
mus poob tebchaws.