1The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshethite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.2Hear, O peoples, all of them; listen, O earth, and its fullness. And let the Lord GOD be a witness against you from his holy temple.3For behold, the LORD comes out from his place; he goes down and treads upon the high places of the earth.4The mountains melt underneath him, and the valleys break up like wax before the fire, like waters poured out in a descent.5All this is because of the transgression of Jacob and because of the sins of the house of Israel. Who is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And who are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?6I will make Samaria a ruin of the field, plantations of a vineyard; I will pour her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.7All her idols will be crushed, all her wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will set as devastation; for from the wages of a prostitute she gathered, and to the wages of a prostitute they will return.