Micah 1:8–16

MICAH’S LAMENT

⁸Because of this I will lament and wail;

I will walk barefoot and naked.^w

I will howl like the jackals^x

and mourn like ostriches.^C

⁹For her wound is incurable^y

and has reached even Judah;^z

it has approached my people’s city gate,^aa

as far as Jerusalem.

¹⁰Don’t announce it in Gath,^ab

don’t weep at all.

Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

¹¹Depart in shameful nakedness,^ac

you residents of Shaphir;

the residents of Zaanan^ad will not come out.

Beth-ezel is lamenting;

its support^D is taken from you.

¹²Though the residents of Maroth

anxiously wait for something good,^ae

disaster has come from the Lord^af

to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³Harness the horses to the chariot,

you residents of Lachish.^ag

This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion

because Israel’s acts of rebellion^ah can be traced to you.

¹⁴Therefore, send farewell gifts^ai to Moresheth-gath;

the houses of Achzib^aj are a deception^ak

to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵I will again bring a conqueror

against you who live in Mareshah.^al

The nobility^A of Israel will come to Adullam.^am

¹⁶Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair^an

in sorrow for your precious children;

make yourselves as bald as an eagle,

for they have been taken from you into exile.^ao