Micah 1:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 The inhabitants of Maroth
hope for good,
But evil has come down from the Lord
to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Harness steeds to the chariots,
inhabitants of Lachish;
You are the beginning of sin
for daughter Zion,
For in you were found
the crimes of Israel.
14 Therefore you must give back the dowry
to Moresheth-gath;
The houses of Achzib[a] are a dry stream bed
to the kings of Israel.
Footnotes
- 1:14 The houses of Achzib: there is a wordplay here. In the Hebrew, the word translated here as “dry stream bed” is ’achzab; this word is sometimes translated as “deception” or “disappointment.”
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