Micahchapter 1
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Original Language
Micah 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Micah 1. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
The yearly cycle does not read Micah 1. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
The LORD comes down and the mountains melt like wax1
Micah 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Stripped and wailing like the jackals8
Micah 1:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A roll call of doomed towns, each name a wound10
Micah 1:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 1:10
Do not declare it in Gath —lest the Philistines rejoice about us.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 1:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 1:12
For the one dwelling in disobedience hoped for good —For the one dwelling in tranquility and disobeying the word of the prophets hoped for good.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 1:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 1:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible