Micah 1:7-9

Jonah 4 Micah 2

Micah 1:7-9 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

⁷All her images shall be beaten to pieces,
    all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste;
for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used.

The Doom of the Cities of Judah

⁸For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go barefoot and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals,
    and mourning like the ostriches.
⁹For her wound^[a] is incurable.
    It has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

Footnotes:

Micah 1:9 Gk Syr Vg: Heb wounds

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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Micah 1:7-9 New International Version (NIV)

⁷All her idols will be broken to pieces;
    all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;
    I will destroy all her images.
Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,
    as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

Weeping and Mourning

⁸Because of this I will weep and wail;
    I will go about barefoot and naked.
I will howl like a jackal
    and moan like an owl.
⁹For Samaria’s plague is incurable;
    it has spread to Judah.
It has reached the very gate of my people,
    even to Jerusalem itself.

New International Version (NIV)

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