§1.1ΚAI ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς Μειχαίαν τὸν τοῦ Μωρασθεὶ ἐν ἡμέραις Ἰωαθὰμ καὶ Ἀχὰζ καὶ Ἐζεκίου βασιλέων Ἰούδα, ὑπέρ ὧν εἶδεν περὶ Σαμαρείας καὶ περὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ.
The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Joatham, Achaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
§1.2Ἀκούσατε, λαοί, λόγους, καὶ προσεχέτω ἡ γῆ καὶ πάντες οἱ ἐν αὐτῇ, καὶ ἔσται κύριος Κύριος ἐν ὑμῖν εἰς μαρτύριον, Κύριος ἐξ οἴκου ἁγίου αὐτοῦ.
Hear, ye peoples, all of you; let the earth give ear, and all that are in it: and let the Lord God be among you for a witness, the Lord from his holy temple.
§1.3διότι ἰδοὺ Κύριος ἐκπορεύεται ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταβήσεται ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη τῆς γῆς,
For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
§1.4καὶ σαλευθήσεται τὰ ὄρη ὑποκάτωθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ αἱ κοιλάδες τακήσονται ὡς κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρός, καὶ ὡς ὕδωρ καταφερόμενον ἐν καταβάσει.
And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt as wax before the fire, and as water poured down a steep place.
§1.5διὰ ἀσέβειαν Ἰακὼβ πάντα ταῦτα, καὶ διὰ ἁμαρτίαν οἴκου Ἰσραήλ.
All this is for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel.
τίς ἡ ἀσέβεια τοῦ Ἰακώβ, οὐ Σαμάρεια καὶ τίς ἡ ἁμαρτία οἵκου Ἰούδα, οὐχὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ;
What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
§1.6καὶ θήσομαι Σαμάρειαν εἰς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἀγροῦ καὶ εἰς φυτίαν ἀμπελῶνος, καὶ κατασπάσω εἰς χάος τοὺς λίθους αὐτῆς, καὶ τὰ θεμέλια αὐτῆς ἀποκαλύψω·
Therefore I will make Samaria as a lodge of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will drag down her stones into the gulf, and I will discover her foundations.
§1.7καὶ πάντα τὰ γλυπτὰ αὐτῆς κατακόψουσιν, καὶ πάντα τὰ μισθώματα αὐτῆς ἐμπρήσουσιν ἐν πυρί, καὶ πάντα τὰ εἴδωλα αὐτῆς θήσομαι εἰς ἀφανισμόν· διότι ἐκ μισθωμάτων πορνείας συνήγαγεν, καὶ ἐκ μισθωμάτων πορνείας συνέστρεψεν.
And they shall cut in pieces all her graven images, and all her hires they shall burn with fire, and all her idols I will lay desolate: for she gathered them of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication she has amassed them.
§1.8ἔυεκεν τούτου κόψεται καὶ θρηνήσει, πορεύσεται ἀνυπόδετος καὶ γυμνή, ποιήσεται κοπετὸν ὡς δρακόντων καὶ πένθος ὡς θυγατέρων σειρήνων·
For this reason she shall lament and wail, she shall go unshod and naked, she shall make a wailing like that of dragons, and a mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
§1.9ὅτι κατεκράτησεν ἡ πληγὴ αὐτῆς, διότι ἥλθεν ἕως Ἰούδα καὶ ἥψατο ἕως πύλης λαοῦ μου, ἕως Ἰερουσαλήμ.
For her plague has prevailed; for it has come even to Judah, and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
§1.10Οἱ ἐν Γέθ, μὴ μεγαλύνεσθε, οἱ ἐν Ἀκείμ, μὴ ἀνοικοδομεῖτε ἐξ οἴκου καταγέλωτα· γῆν καταπάσασθε καταγέλωτα ὑμῶν·
Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye in Achim, build not again from the house of laughter; sprinkle dust upon your laughter.
§1.11κατοικοῦσα καλῶς τὰς πόλεις αὐτῆς, οὐκ ἐξῆλθεν κατοικοῦσα Σεναάρ, κόψασθαι οἶκον ἐχόμενον αὐτῆς· λήμψεται ἐξ ὑμῶν πληγὴν ὀδύνης.
She that dwells well in her cities came not forth, she that dwells in Senjaar, to lament for the house next to her: she shall receive of you a stroke of pain.
§1.12τίς ἡρξατο εἰς ἀγαθὰ κατοικούσῃ ὀδύνας;
Who has begun to bring pain to her that dwells in peace?
ὅτι κατέβη κακὰ παρὰ Κυρίου ἐπὶ πύλας Ἰερουσαλήμ, §1.13ψόφος ἁρμάτων καὶ ἱππευόντων. κατοικοῦσα λαχεἱς ἀρχηγὸς ἁμαρτίας αὕτη ἐστὶν τῇ θυγατρὶ Σειών, ὅτι ἐν σοὶ εὑρέθησαν ἀσέβειαι τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
For evil has come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem, even a noise of chariots and horsemen: she that dwells in Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion, for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.
§1.14διὰ τοῦτο δώσει ἐξαποστελλομένους ἕως κληρονομίας Γέθ, οἴκους ματαί ους, εἰς κενὸν ἐγένοντο τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν τοῦ Ἰσραήλ· §1.15ἕως τοῖς κληρονόμους ἀγάγωσιν, κατοικοῦσα Λάχεις· κληρονομία ἕως Ὀδολλὰμ ἤξει, ἡ δόξα τῆς θυγατρὸς Ἰσραήλ.
Therefore shall she give messengers as far as the inheritance of Geth, even vain houses; they became a frustration to the kings of Israel, until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall come as far as Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.
§1.16ξύρησαι καὶ κεῖραι ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα τὰ τρυφερά σου, ἐνπλάτυνον τὴν χηρίαν σου ὡς ἀετός, ὅτι ήχμαλωτεύθησαν ἀπὸ σοῦ.
Shave thine hair, and shear it for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as an eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.