Mikha 1:2
Konteks1:2 Listen, all you nations! 1
Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! 2
The sovereign Lord will testify 3 against you;
the Lord will accuse you 4 from his majestic palace. 5
Mikha 1:7
Konteks1:7 All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces;
all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. 6
I will make a waste heap 7 of all her images.
Since 8 she gathered the metal 9 as a prostitute collects her wages,
the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.” 10
Mikha 4:4
Konteks4:4 Each will sit under his own grapevine
or under his own fig tree without any fear. 11
The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. 12
[1:2] 1 tn Heb “O peoples, all of them.”
[1:2] 2 tn Heb “O earth and all its fullness”; KJV “and all that therein is.”
[1:2] 3 tn Heb “May the sovereign
[1:2] 4 tn Heb “the
[1:2] 5 tn Or “his holy temple” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to the Lord’s dwelling in heaven, however, rather than the temple in Jerusalem (note the following verse, which describes a theophany).
[1:7] 6 tn Heb “and all her prostitute’s wages will be burned with fire.”
[1:7] sn The precious metal used by Samaria’s pagan worship centers to make idols are here compared to a prostitute’s wages because Samaria had been unfaithful to the
[1:7] 7 tn Heb “I will make desolate” (so NASB).
[1:7] 8 tn Or “for” (KJV, NASB, NRSV).
[1:7] 9 tn No object is specified in the Hebrew text; the words “the metal” are supplied from the context.
[1:7] 10 tn Heb “for from a prostitute’s wages she gathered, and to a prostitute’s wages they will return.” When the metal was first collected it was comparable to the coins a prostitute would receive for her services. The metal was then formed into idols, but now the
[4:4] 11 tn Heb “and there will be no one making [him] afraid.”
[4:4] 12 tn Heb “for the mouth of the