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The mountains will melt beneath him,
    and the valleys will flow away like wax near a fire,
    like water spilling down a mountainside.
All this will happen because of the rebellion of Jacob,
    because of the sins of the house of Israel.
    What is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria?
    What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

That is why I have sentenced Samaria to become
        a heap of ruins in the open countryside,
        a place where someone might plant a vineyard.
    I have hurled down its stones into the valley.[a]
    I will expose its foundation.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:6 Though the events described in verse 6 still lay in the future as Micah was writing about them, the Hebrew verbs express past time, indicating that the events were already determined by God.