Mikha 1:9
Konteks1:9 For Samaria’s 1 disease 2 is incurable.
It has infected 3 Judah;
it has spread to 4 the leadership 5 of my people
and has even contaminated Jerusalem! 6
Mikha 1:12
Konteks1:12 Indeed, the residents of Maroth 7 hope for something good to happen, 8
though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem. 9
[1:9] 1 tn Heb “her”; the referent (Samaria) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[1:9] 2 tc The MT reads the plural “wounds”; the singular is read by the LXX, Syriac, and Vg.
[1:9] tn Or “wound.”
[1:9] 5 tn Heb “the gate.” Kings and civic leaders typically conducted important business at the city gate (see 1 Kgs 22:10 for an example), and the term is understood here to refer by metonymy to the leadership who would be present at the gate.
[1:9] 6 tn Heb “to Jerusalem.” The expression “it has contaminated” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to fill out the parallelism with the preceding line.
[1:9] map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[1:12] 7 sn The place name Maroth sounds like the Hebrew word for “bitter.”
[1:12] 8 tc The translation assumes an emendation of חָלָה (khalah; from חִיל, khil, “to writhe”) to יִחֲלָה (yikhalah; from יָחַל, yakhal, “to wait”).
[1:12] tn Heb “[the residents of Maroth] writhe [= “anxiously long for”?] good.”
[1:12] 9 tn Heb “though disaster has come down from the