Micah 1:8-16 - Micah's Lament

⁸ Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls. ⁹ For her wound is painful, for it is come unto Judah; it is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Do not declare it in Gath, weep little; roll thyself in the dust for the house of Aphrah. ¹¹ Pass away naked with shame, thou inhabitant of Saphir: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not come forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you for his lateness. ¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth was pained because of good; therefore evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. ¹³ O thou inhabitant of Lachish, hitch the chariot to dromedaries: for thou wert the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion, for in thee the rebellions of Israel were invented. ¹⁴ Therefore shalt thou give gifts to Moreshethgath; the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. ¹⁵ Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come unto Adullam. ¹⁶ Make thee bald, and shave thee for the sons of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.