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Micah 1:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, I will make Samaria a heap of ruins  in the countryside, a planting area  for a vineyard. I will roll her stones  into the valley and expose her foundations.

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I will demolish the wall you plastered with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed.  The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the Lord.


Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.


How the gold has become tarnished, the fine gold become dull! The stones of the temple  lie scattered at the head of every street.


Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.


He replied to them, ‘Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.’


You come out to save your people, to save your anointed. You crush the leader of the house of the wicked and strip him from foot  to neck. Selah


Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.


Samaria  will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.


Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.


Look, I am against you, devastating mountain. This is the  Lord’s declaration. You devastate the whole earth. I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you down from the cliffs, and turn you into a charred mountain.


I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.


The high-walled fortress will be brought down, thrown to the ground, to the dust.


For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins; the fortress of barbarians  is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.


If he retreats to some city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag its stones  into the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.’


A pronouncement  concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus is no longer a city. It has become a ruined heap.


You will plant vineyards again on the mountains of Samaria; the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.


In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Assyria’s King Shalmaneser marched against Samaria and besieged it.


The Assyrians captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Israel’s King Hoshea, Samaria was captured.


The Lord God has sworn by himself   #– #this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Armies: I loathe Jacob’s pride and hate his citadels, so I will hand over the city  and everything in it.





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