The word of the LORDthatcame to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerningSamaria and Jerusalem.
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the highplaces of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Therefore I willmakeSamaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I willpourdown the stonesthereofinto the valley, and I willdiscover the foundationsthereof.
And all the gravenimagesthereofshall be beaten to pieces, and all the hiresthereofshall be burnedwith the fire, and all the idolsthereofwill I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and theyshallreturn to the hire of an harlot.
Pass ye away, thouinhabitant of Saphir, having thy shamenaked: the inhabitant of Zaanancame not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shallreceive of you his standing.
O thouinhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swiftbeast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israelwerefound in thee.