And there was a famine in the days of David, three years, year after year. And David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul and for his bloody house, because he caused the Gibeonites to die.
For the fortified city shall be lonely, a forsaken pasture, left alone and forsaken like a wilderness. The calf shall feed there, and he shall lie there and eat up its branches.
Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from afar; His anger burns; and is heavy as the lifting up of flame; His lips are full of fury, and His tongue like a devouring fire.
Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah. And he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.
And My eye shall not spare, and I will not have pity; I will put on you according to your ways and your disgusting things that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am Jehovah who strikes.
Samaria shall be desolate, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.
Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous one shall walk in them; but those transgressing shall stumble in them.
Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, those noted as the chief of the nations! And the house of Israel came to them.
Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.
O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be humble to walk with your God?