Micah 1:8–16

Mourning for Israel and Judah

⁸Therefore I will wail and howl,

I will go stripped and naked;

^jI will make a wailing like the jackals

And a mourning like the ostriches,

⁹For her wounds are incurable.

For ^kit has come to Judah;

It has come to the gate of My people—

To Jerusalem.

^10lTell it not in Gath,

Weep not at all;

In ¹Beth Aphrah

Roll yourself in the dust.

¹¹Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of ²Shaphir;

The inhabitant of ³Zaanan does not go out.

Beth Ezel mourns;

Its place to stand is taken away from you.

¹²For the inhabitant of ⁴Maroth ⁵pined for good,

But ^mdisaster came down from the Lord

To the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³O inhabitant of ⁿLachish,

Harness the chariot to the swift steeds

(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),

For the transgressions of Israel were ^ofound in you.

¹⁴Therefore you shall ^pgive presents to ⁶Moresheth Gath;

The houses of ^qAchzib ⁷shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of ^rMareshah; ⁸

The glory of Israel shall come to ^sAdullam. ⁹

¹⁶Make yourself ^tbald and cut off your hair,

Because of your ^uprecious children;

Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,

For they shall go from you into ^vcaptivity.