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


 * , all ye people;
 * Hearken, O earth, and all that therein is:
 * And let the Lord God be witness against you,
 * The Lord from his holy temple.
 * For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place,
 * And will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
 * And the mountains shall be molten under him,
 * And the valleys shall be cleft,
 * As wax before the fire,
 * And as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
 * 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 high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
 * Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field,
 * And as plantings of a vineyard: