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 jackals, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich. ⁹ For her wounds are not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Do not declare it in Gath; weep not at all; in the house of Leaphrah roll in the dust. ¹¹ Pass over to them, O dweller of Shaphir, in nakedness of shame. The dweller of Zaanan has not gone out; the mourning of Beth-ezel shall take from you his standing. ¹² For be grieved for good, the dweller of Maroth, for evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem. ¹³ O inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the stallion; she is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the sins of Israel were found in you. ¹⁴ Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib are for a lying thing to the kings of Israel. ¹⁵ Yet I will bring an heir to you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam. ¹⁶ Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.