Micah 1:8–16

The Doom of the Cities of Judah

⁸For this I will lament and wail;

I will go barefoot and naked;

I will make lamentation like the jackals

and mourning like the ostriches.^*

⁹For her wound^b is incurable.

It has come to Judah;

it has reached to the gate of my people,

to Jerusalem.^*

¹⁰Tell it not in Gath;

weep not at all;

in Beth-leaphrah

roll yourselves in the dust.^*

¹¹Pass on your way,

inhabitants of Shaphir,

in nakedness and shame;

the inhabitants of Zaanan

do not come forth;

Beth-ezel is wailing

and shall remove its support from you.^*

¹²For the inhabitants of Maroth

wait anxiously for good,

yet disaster has come down from the Lord

to the gate of Jerusalem.^*

¹³Harness the steeds to the chariots,

inhabitants of Lachish;

it was the beginning of sin

to daughter Zion,

for in you were found

the transgressions of Israel.^*

¹⁴Therefore you shall give parting gifts

to Moresheth-gath;

the houses of Achzib shall be a deception

to the kings of Israel.^*

¹⁵I will again bring a conqueror upon you,

inhabitants of Mareshah;

the glory of Israel

shall come to Adullam.^*

¹⁶Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair

for your pampered children;

make yourselves as bald as the eagle,

for they have gone from you into exile.^*