1. The word of the Lord, which came to Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.
2. Hear, all you peoples!Listen, earth and everything in it,that the Sovereign Lord may be a witness against you,the Lord from His holy temple.
3. Look! The Lord is coming out from His place,so that He might come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4. The mountains will melt beneath Him,and the valleys split apartlike wax before the fire,like waters deluged down a slope.
5. All this because of the transgression of Jacoband because of the sins of the house of Israel.What is the transgression of Jacob?Is it not Samaria?And what is the high place of Judah?Is it not Jerusalem?
6. Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the fieldfor the planting of vineyards.I will dump her stones into the valleyand expose her foundations.