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Micah 1:9

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1:9For Samaria’s41 disease42 is incurable.

It has infected43 Judah;

it has spread to44 the leadership45 of my people

and has even contaminated Jerusalem!46

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Footnotes

  1. 41 Heb “her”; the referent (Samaria) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 42 The reads the plural “wounds”; the singular is read by the , , and . Or “wound.”
  3. 43 Heb “come to.”
  4. 44 Or “reached.”
  5. 45 Heb “the gate.” Kings and civic leaders typically conducted important business at the city gate (see 1 Kgs 22:10 for an example), and the term is understood here to refer by metonymy to the leadership who would be present at the gate.
  6. 46 Heb “to Jerusalem.” The expression “it has contaminated” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to fill out the parallelism with the preceding line. For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For her wound is incurable,

and it has come to Judah;

it has reached to the gate of my people,

to Jerusalem.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For Samaria’s plague is incurable;

it has spread to Judah.

It has reached the very gate of my people,

even to Jerusalem itself.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For her wound is incurable

and has reached even Judah;

it has approached my people’s city gate,

as far as Jerusalem.

NLTNew Living Translation

For my people’s wound

is too deep to heal.

It has reached into Judah,

even to the gates of Jerusalem.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For her wounds are incurable,

because it has come to Judah.

It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

KJV 1900King James Version

For her wound is incurable;

For it is come unto Judah;

He is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.