The word of יהוה that came to Mikah the Morashtite in the days of Yotam, Aḥaz, Yeḥizkiyah, kings of Yehudah, which he saw concerning Shomron and Yerushalayim.

Hear, all peoples; pay attention, earth and all that fills it. And let Adonai יהוה be a witness against you, Adonai from his holy temple.

For behold, יהוה is coming out from his place, and he will descend 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 poured down a slope.

Because of Ya'aqov's rebellion, all this, and because of the sins of the house of Yisra'el. Who is Ya'aqov's rebellion? Is it not Shomron? And who are Yehudah's high places? Is it not Yerushalayim?

And I will make Shomron a ruin of the field, a place for planting vineyards. And I will pour out its stones into the valley, and I will expose its foundations.

And all its carved images will be beaten, and all its wages will be burned with fire, and all its idols I will make a desolation. Because from the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the wages of a prostitute they will return.

For this, I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked. I will make a lament like jackals and mourning like ostriches.

For her wound is incurable, for it has come as far as Yehudah; it has reached the gate of my people, to Yerushalayim.

Do not announce it in Gat; do not weep. In the house of 'Afrah, roll in the dust.

Pass on, inhabitant of Shafir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Tsa'anan will not come out. The mourning of the house of 'Etsel will take away its standing place from you.

For the inhabitant of Marot has become sick for good. For evil has come down from יהוה to the gate of Yerushalayim.

Harness the chariot to the team, inhabitant of Lakish. She is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Tsiyon, for in you the transgressions of Yisra'el were found.

Therefore, you will give parting gifts for the inheritance of Gat, the houses of Akhziv are a deceitful thing for the kings of Yisra'el.

Yet I will bring an heir to you, inhabitant of Mareṣah. The glory of Yisra'el will come to 'Adullam.

Shave yourself bald and cut off your hair for the children of your delight; enlarge your baldness like an eagle, for they have been exiled from you.