1The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 26:18, Jeremiah 26:18, Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 1:1, Hosea 1:1

2Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

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Isaiah 1:2, Psalms 11:4, Isaiah 1:2, Psalms 11:4, Revelation 2:7

3For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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Amos 4:13, Amos 4:13, Isaiah 26:21, Isaiah 26:21, Deuteronomy 32:13

4The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

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Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:5, Psalms 97:5, Psalms 97:5, Judges 5:4

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?

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Jeremiah 2:19, Amos 8:14, Jeremiah 2:19, Amos 8:14, 1 Thessalonians 2:15

6Therefore 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.

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Ezekiel 13:14, Ezekiel 13:14, Micah 3:12, Micah 3:12, Lamentations 4:1

7All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."

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Deuteronomy 23:18, Deuteronomy 23:18, Hosea 2:12, Hosea 2:12, Hosea 8:6

8For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

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Isaiah 20:2, Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 20:2, Isaiah 20:4

9For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 30:15, Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 30:15, Jeremiah 15:18

10Do not tell it in Gath. Do not weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

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2 Samuel 1:20, 2 Samuel 1:20, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 6:26, Lamentations 3:29

11Pass 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.

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Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 47:2, Isaiah 47:3, Micah 1:8

12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 14:19, Amos 3:6, Micah 1:9, Amos 3:6

13Harness 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.

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2 Kings 18:17, 2 Kings 18:17, 2 Chronicles 32:9, Joshua 10:3, 2 Chronicles 32:9

14Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

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Joshua 15:44, Joshua 15:44, 2 Kings 16:8, 2 Kings 16:8, 2 Kings 18:14

15I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

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1 Samuel 22:1, Joshua 15:44, 1 Samuel 22:1, Joshua 15:44, Joshua 15:35

16Shave 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!

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Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:12, Jeremiah 7:29, Job 1:20, Jeremiah 7:29