Micah 1:8–16

⁸For this I will lament and wail;

I will go stripped and naked;

I will make lamentation like the jackals,

and mourning like the ostriches.

⁹For her wound^b is incurable;

and 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-le-aphrah

roll yourselves in the dust.

¹¹Pass on your way,

inhabitants of Shaphir,

in nakedness and shame;

the inhabitants of Zaanan

do not come forth;

the wailing of Beth-ezel

shall take away from you its standing place.

¹²For the inhabitants of Maroth

wait anxiously for good,

because evil has come down from the Lord

to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³Harness the steeds to the chariots,

inhabitants of Lachish;

you were^c the beginning of sin

to the daughter of 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 deceitful thing

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 the children of your delight;

make yourselves as bald as the eagle,

for they shall go from you into exile.