1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD 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 molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the 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 an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
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Chris's Micah Chapter 1 comment on 8/15/2025, 3:20am...
Hi Syrstephen007. You are correct, this the prophet Micah referring to himself. You can tell he is in great anguish (Micah 1:3-9) for the horrible sins of Israel (of which the head was Samaria, where the kings had their residence, idolatry was rampant, setting a bad example to the rest of the people). And the sins of Judah (where Jerusalem which was the main city, having the same evil influence over her, as Samaria had over the ten tribes).
So Micah was so distraught by what God was telling him & what he then had to proclaim of their judgement because of their sins, that his (Micah) response would be a blood-curdling cry as when one is alone at the dead of night in a forest with jackals and owls screeching around him. That he would tear off his garments (probably not all clothing, as was done by many in that period) in demonstration of his agony & bitterness for his people's coming judgement. All this makes the prophet appear melodramatic, but we can't read and appreciate the force of God's Word coming to him and the horrors of judgement to follow. It must have been awful to hear and then to proclaim it. Wasn't the best job being a prophet at that time.
Syrstephen007's Micah Chapter 1 comment on 8/14/2025, 4:40pm...
In Verse 8 of chapter 1: "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls." who is "I"? Is it Micah? Or a reference to the people there?
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