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Micah 1:7

Judgment

5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

6 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

9 For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
KJV
And 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.
WEB
All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”
ASV
And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.
DARBY
And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her harlot-gifts shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I make a desolation; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered [them], and to a harlot's hire shall they return.
BLB
And all her carved images will be crushed, and all her wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will set [as] a desolation. For from the wages of a prostitute she gathered [it], and to the wages of a prostitute they will return!
ÅB
Alle de utskårne bildene hennes skal knuses,
all horelønnen hennes brennes opp med ild,
og alle avgudsbildene hennes vil jeg ødelegge.
For av horelønn har hun samlet dem,
og til horelønn skal de bli igjen.
OTB
Alle hennes avguder vil bli knust,
Alle hennes inntekter vil bli brent med ild,
Og alle hennes bilder vil jeg gjøre øde;
For hun samlet dem fra en skjøges inntekter,
Og til en skjøges inntekter skal de vende tilbake.
B1930
Og alle dets utskårne billeder skal sønderslås, og alle dets horegaver brennes op med ild, og alle dets avgudsbilleder vil jeg ødelegge; for av horelønn har det samlet dem, og til horelønn skal de atter bli.

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Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 23:18

    You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

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  • Hosea 2:12

    I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.

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  • Hosea 8:6

    For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

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  • Hosea 10:5–6

    The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.

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  • Revelation 18:3

    All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

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  • Leviticus 26:30

    I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

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  • 2 Kings 23:14–15

    He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

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  • 2 Chronicles 34:6–7

    Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.

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