A reading from the book of Micah.

The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moroesheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,

Kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Here you peoples, all of you.

Pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you,

the Lord from His Holy Temple.

For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high

places of the earth, and the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open,

like wax before the fire, like waters pour down a steep place.

All this is for the transgression of Jacob,

and for the sins of the House of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria?

And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open

country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down

her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations. All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,

all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste. For from the fee of a

prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make lamentation like the

jackals and mourning like the ostriches, for her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah. It has reached

to the gate of my people to Jerusalem. Tell it not in Gad, weep not at all in Beth Leopra.

Roll yourselves in the dust.

Pass on your way, inhabitants of Schaefer, and nakedness and shame, the inhabitants of

Zeyennan, do not come out.

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