Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

All the city has become desolate; one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

The flock that dwelt [there] shall be left, as a deserted flock; and [the ground] shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.

[As for] the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon [it], and joy shall be removed from every house.

[As for] the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, [and] the pleasant houses; and the villages shall be caves forever, the joy of wild donkeys, shepherds' pastures;

The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withers, and the flower fades; but the word of our God abides forever.

A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompense to [His] adversaries.

and you shall say, Thus says the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleanness in all the houses, in which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured [out] drink offerings to strange gods.

then will I make this house as Shiloh, and I will make [this] city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

Micah the Moreshite lived in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, Thus says the Lord; Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.

And the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

And though you should smite the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few wounded [men], these should rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire.

Samaria shall be utterly destroyed, for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women and children ripped up.

And I will send a fire on Judah, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.

A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? The Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?

And she knew not what things would come against her, says the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.

Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of [a foreign] tribe, and in Damascus.

For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria; they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

And Jonah began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he preached, and said, Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God.

And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes.

Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for all the people, and for all Judah, and concerning the words of this book that has been found; for the wrath of the Lord that has been kindled against us [is] great, because our fathers hearkened not to the words of this book, to do according to all the things written concerning us.

And she said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Say to the man that sent you to Me,

because they have forsaken Me, and burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me with the works of their hands; therefore My wrath shall burn forth against this place, and shall not be quenched.

because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before [Me], when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you tore your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord?

An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.

O Lord, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

Who is wise, and will understand these things? Or prudent, and will know them? For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them; but the ungodly shall fall therein.

And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood near him there, and called by the name of the Lord.

and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity and unrighteousness and sins; and He will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

According to Your name, O God, so is also Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

And let them know that Your name is Lord; that You alone are Most High over all the earth.

Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a [long] time, burning wrath; the word of His lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of His wrath shall devour like fire.

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, [There is] guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gibeonites.

For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains;

Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the Sovereign of all;

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore have You thus judged me?

But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.

Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of My wrath and anger are in their hands.

I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them.

If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! For priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

We know our sins, O Lord, [and] the iniquities of our fathers, for we have sinned before You.

Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? And will the sky yield His fullness [at their bidding]? Are not You He? We will even wait on You, O Lord, for You have made all these things.

MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin?

Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven.

And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for the execution of His words is mighty; for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be able to [resist] it?

and tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and relenting of evil.

Sound the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service:

Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

And your teeth shall be idle in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.

I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with your horses that were taken captive; and in My wrath against you I set fire to your camps; yet not even thus did you return to Me, says the Lord.

Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.

And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineveh by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

Who knows if God will relent, and turn from His fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

And now thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!

Thus says the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways!

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.