And the word of the Lord came to Micah of Morasthi, in the days of Jotham and Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, concerning what he saw about Samaria and about Jerusalem.
Hear the words, you peoples, and let the earth give heed, and all who are in it. And the Lord will be among you for a testimony, the Lord from his holy house.
All this is because of the ungodliness of Jacob and because of the sin of the house of Israel. What is the ungodliness of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
And I will make Samaria into a watchman's hut in a field and into a planting of a vineyard, and I will pull down her stones into a chasm, and I will uncover her foundations.
And all her carved images they will cut to pieces, and all her hire they will burn with fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation; for from the hire of prostitution she gathered, and from the hire of prostitution she amassed.
Because of this she will beat her breast and lament; she will go barefoot and naked; she will make a wailing like dragons and a mourning like the daughters of sirens.
You who are in Gath, do not magnify yourselves; you who are in Akim, do not rebuild. From the house, in derision, sprinkle earth upon yourselves, according to your derision.
She who dwells well in her cities did not come out; she who dwells in Sennaan did not come out to mourn. The house next to her will take from you a blow of anguish.
The noise of chariots and horsemen. You who dwell in Lachish, she is the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the ungodly deeds of Israel.
Until I bring the heirs to you, you who dwell in Lachish; the inheritance shall reach as far as Odollam; the glory of the daughter of Israel shall come.