Micah 1:6-8

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁶Therefore I [the Lord] will make Samaria a ^[a]heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down into the ravine her stones and lay bare her foundations.^(A)

⁷And all her carved images shall be broken in pieces, and all her hires [all that man would gain from desertion of God] shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will be laid waste; for from the hire of [one] harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of [another] harlot they shall return.

⁸Therefore I [Micah] will lament and wail; I will go stripped and [virtually] naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals and a lamentation like the ostriches.

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Footnotes

Micah 1:6 Samaria was captured by the king of Assyria around 722 b.c. (II Kings 17:6), and was besieged and demolished by John Hyrcanus around 128 b.c. In his book Syria and Palestine, written in the nineteenth century, Van de Velde, after visiting Sebaste or Samaria, wrote: “Samaria, a heap of stones! Her foundations discovered, her streets plowed up and covered with corn fields and olive gardens! Samaria has been destroyed; her rubbish has been thrown down into the valley; her foundation stones lie scattered about on the slope of the hill.” Through the inspiration of the omniscient and omnipotent God, Micah was able to foretell all this more than 2,000 years before.