1 Yahweh’s word that came to Micah of Morasheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, you peoples, all of you!
Listen, O earth, and all that is therein.
Let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For behold, Yahweh comes out of his place,
and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
4 The mountains melt under him,
and the valleys split apart like wax before the fire,
like waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob,
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the disobedience of Jacob?
Isn’t it Samaria?
And what are the high places of Judah?
Aren’t they Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field,
like places for planting vineyards;
and I will pour down its stones into the valley,
and I will uncover its foundations.
7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces,
all her temple gifts will be burned with fire,
and I will destroy all her images;
for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them,
and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."
8 For this I will lament and wail.
I will go stripped and naked.
I will howl like the jackals
and mourn like the ostriches.
9 For her wounds are incurable;
for it has come even to Judah.
It reaches to the gate of my people,
even to Jerusalem.
10 Don’t tell it in Gath.
Don’t weep at all.
At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame.
The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out.
The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good,
because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish.
She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion;
For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
14 Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath.
The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
15 I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah.
The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
16 Shave your heads,
and cut off your hair for the children of your delight.
Enlarge your baldness like the vulture,
for they have gone into captivity from you!
1 在犹大王约坦、亚哈斯、希西家执政的时候， 耶和华的话临到摩利沙人弥迦， 是关于撒玛利亚和耶路撒冷的话。
2 万民哪！ 你们都要听； 地和地上所遍满的， 你们要聆听； 主耶和华要指证你们的不是， 主必从他的圣殿指证你们的不是。
3 看哪！ 耶和华离开自己的地方， 他降下来， 踏在地的高处。
4 群山在他脚下融化， 众谷裂开， 如蜡在火前一般， 像水冲下斜坡一般，
5 这都是因为雅各的过犯， 以色列家的罪恶。雅各的过犯是什么呢？不就是撒玛利亚吗？犹大家的罪恶是什么呢？不就是耶路撒冷吗？
6 所以我必使撒玛利亚变成田间的废堆， 作栽种葡萄之处； 我必把撒玛利亚的石头倒在谷中， 连它的根基都露出来。
7 它一切雕刻的偶像必被打碎； 它全部的钱财， 都要用火烧尽； 它所有的偶像， 我都要毁灭； 因为从妓女钱财榨取的， 最后也必归为妓女的钱财。
8 为此我要痛哭哀号， 赤膊光脚而行； 又要哀号如豺狼， 悲鸣像鸵鸟。
9 因为撒玛利亚的创伤无法医治， 并且殃及犹大， 直逼我子民的城门， 就是耶路撒冷。
10 不要在迦特报信， 不要在巴歌哭泣； 却要在伯．亚弗拉打滚于尘土中。
11 沙斐的居民哪！ 你们赤身羞愧走过去吧。撒南的居民不敢出来（"不敢出来"或译： "也逃不掉"）； 伯．以薛人的哀号， 要把你们立足之地夺去。
12 玛律的居民， 急待得着幸福， 因有灾祸从耶和华那里降下， 临到耶路撒冷的城门。
13 拉吉的居民哪！ 要用快马套车， 这就是锡安子民（"子民"原文作"女子"）罪恶的开端； 因为以色列的过犯， 都在你那里找到了。
14 因此要把妆奁， 送给摩利设．迦特； 亚革悉的各家， 必用诡诈对待以色列的众王。
15 玛利沙的居民哪！ 我要再使那征服你的来到你那里； 以色列的荣耀， 必去到亚杜兰。
16 犹大啊！ 为你所喜爱的儿女， 你要剃头， 使你的头光秃， 完全光秃如同秃鹰； 因为他们都从你那里被掳去了。