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Micah 1:1 – Introduction to Micah’s vision

What happens: Micah states that the word of the Lord comes to him in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He says his message concerns Samaria and Jerusalem.

What it means: God speaks into real history and real politics. Prophecy is God’s covenant word to call His people back, showing His faithfulness and authority.

Micah 1:2–4 – The Lord comes in judgment

What happens: Micah summons all peoples to hear, because the Lord comes from His holy temple. Mountains melt and valleys split like wax before fire as He descends.

What it means: God is holy and His presence shakes creation. Judgment is not random disaster but the Lord’s personal response to sin, reminding us that He rules heaven and earth.

Micah 1:5–7 – Samaria exposed and ruined

What happens: For Jacob’s transgression and Israel’s sins, Samaria’s idols are smashed and her wealth is burned. The city becomes a heap in the open country.

What it means: Idolatry corrupts and collapses what looks strong. God is just and tears down false worship, fulfilling the covenant warnings and calling people back to true devotion.

Micah 1:8–12 – Micah’s lament and a spreading calamity

What happens: Micah mourns, walks barefoot and naked, and wails like jackals because the wound reaches Judah. He announces sorrow to towns in the Shephelah, playing on their names to show coming loss.

What it means: God’s messenger shares God’s grief over sin and its pain. Judgment spreads when leaders and people refuse repentance, showing human responsibility and God’s righteous sorrow.

Micah 1:13–16 – Humbling of Judah’s towns and exile signs

What happens: Lachish is told to harness the chariot, Moresheth-Gath to give parting gifts, and Mareshah to meet a conqueror. Zion is told to shave her head for her exiled children.

What it means: Sin brings shame and scattering, and pride gives way to humiliation. God warns so His people will wake up, repent, and seek mercy.

Application

  • Treat God’s word as urgent because He speaks into real life.
  • Tear down idols in your heart before God tears them down for you.
  • Grieve over sin’s damage and repent while there is time.

Bible

1The 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.

2Hear, 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.

3For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

4And 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.

5For 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?

6Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

7And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

9For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

11Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

12For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

13O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

14Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

15Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

16Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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