1The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.2Hear, all you peoples. Give ear, O land and all that fills it. And may the Lord GOD be a witness against you forever, the Lord from his holy temple.3For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place and descending to tread upon the high places of the earth.4The mountains will melt beneath him, and the valleys will split like wax before the fire, like waters pouring down a slope.5All this is on account of the transgression of Jacob and 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? Is it not Jerusalem?6And I will make Samaria a city of the field, for plantings of a vineyard, and I will drag it down to the valley of its stones, and I will lay bare its foundations.7They will smash all her pesilim, and they will burn all her prostitution payments in the fire. I will make all her graven images a desolation, for she gathered them from the prostitution payment of a prostitute, and to prostitution payments of prostitutes they will return.