Micah 1:9

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

For dangerous are her wounds, - for she hath come as far as Judah, she hath reached as far as the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For her wound is incurableand has reached even Judah;it has approached my people’s city gate,as far as Jerusalem.

Hebrew Names Version
For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Yehudah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Yerushalayim.

King James Version (1611)
For her wound is incurable, for it is come vnto Iudah: he is come vnto the gate of my people, euen to Ierusalem.

King James Version
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.

New Century Version
because Samaria's wound cannot be healed. It will spread to Judah; it will reach the city gate of my people, all the way to Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
For Samaria's wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; The enemy has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For her plagues are grieuous: for it is come into Iudah: the enemie is come vnto the gate of my people, vnto Ierusalem.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
For her wound is incurable,For it has come to Judah;It has reached the gate of my people,Even to Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Contemporary English Version
The nation is fatally wounded. Judah is doomed. Jerusalem will fall.

Complete Jewish Bible
For her wound cannot be healed, and now it is coming to Y'hudah as well; it reaches even to the gate of my people, to Yerushalayim itself.

Darby Translation
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Easy-to-Read Version
Samaria's wound cannot be healed. Her disease has spread to Judah. It has reached the city gate of my people; it has spread all the way to Jerusalem.

George Lamsa Translation
For her wound is very painful; and disaster has reached Judah; it has come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Good News Translation
Samaria's wounds cannot be healed, and Judah is about to suffer in the same way; destruction has reached the gates of Jerusalem itself, where my people live."

Lexham English Bible
For her wounds are incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Literal Translation
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Bible in Basic English
For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For her wound is incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For their wounde is past remedie, it is come into Iuda, and hath touched the gate of my people at Hierusalem alredie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

World English Bible
For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For wounde therof is dispeirid; for it cam til to Juda, it touchide the yate of my puple, til to Jerusalem.

Update Bible Version
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah; it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.

New English Translation
For Samaria's disease is incurable. It has infected Judah; it has spread to the leadership of my people and has even contaminated Jerusalem!

New King James Version
For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Judah; It has come to the gate of My people-- To Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
For my people's wound is too deep to heal. It has reached into Judah, even to the gates of Jerusalem.

New Life Bible
For her hurt cannot be cured. It has come to Judah. It has come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard
For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Revised Standard Version
For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
For mortal [are] her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people -- to Jerusalem.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for their woude is past remedy: And why? it is come in to Iuda, & hath touched ye porte of my people at Ierusale allredy.

Contextual Overview

⁸ For this cause, will I lament and howl, I will go stript and bare, - I will make a lamentation, like the wild dogs, and a mourning, like ostriches. ⁹ For dangerous are her wounds, - for she hath come as far as Judah, she hath reached as far as the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem. ¹⁰ In Gath, do not tell, in Accho, do not weep, - in Beth-l'aphrah, roll yourselves in dust. ¹¹ Pass thou over (for you), thou inhabitress of Shaphir, of disgraceful disclosure, - the inhabitress of Zaanan, hath not gone forth, at the lamentation of Beth-ezel, shall he take from you his station, ¹² Though the inhabitress of Maroth waited for blessing, - yet there came down calamity from Yahweh, to the gate of Jerusalem. ¹³ Bind the chariot to the steed, O inhabitress of Lachish, - the beginning of sin, was she to the daughter of Zion, for, in thee, have been found the transgressions of Israel. ¹⁴ Therefore, shalt thou give a dismission, against Moresheth-gath, - The houses of Achzib, served for a deception to the kings of Israel. ¹⁵ The time shall yet be when, the heir, I will bring unto thee, O inhabitress of Mareshah, - as far as Adullam, shall enter the glory of Israel. ¹⁶ Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair, for the children of thy pleasures, - enlarge thy baldness, like a vulture, for they are exiled from thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

her wound is incurable: or, she is grievously sick of her wounds, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6, Jeremiah 15:18, Jeremiah 30:11-15

it: 2 Kings 18:9-13, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8

he: Micah 1:12, 2 Chronicles 32:1-23, Isaiah 10:28-32, Isaiah 37:22-36

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:17 - thy seed Isaiah 24:12 - General Jeremiah 9:19 - a voice Jeremiah 30:15 - thy sorrow Jeremiah 46:11 - in vain Hosea 5:13 - his wound Nahum 3:19 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,

Genesis 1:5
and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.

Genesis 1:11
And God said - Let the land put-forth vegetation-herb yielding seed, fruit-tree, bearing fruit, after its kind, whose seed is within it on the land. And it was so,

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, - and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

Genesis 1:29
And God said - Lo! I have given to you - every herb yielding seed which is on the face of all the land, and every tree wherein is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, - to you, shall it be, for food;

Job 26:7
Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For her wound [is] incurable,.... Or her "stroke [is] desperate" e. The ruin of Samaria, and the ten tribes, was inevitable; the decree being gone forth, and they hardened in their sins, and continuing in their impenitence; and their destruction was irrevocable; they were not to be restored again, nor are they to this day; nor will be till the time comes that all Israel shall be saved: or "she is grievously sick of her wounds"; just ready to die, upon the brink of ruin, and no hope of saving her; this is the cause and reason of the above lamentation of the prophet: and what increased his grief and sorrow the more was,

for it is come unto Judah; the calamity has reached the land of Judah; it stopped not with Israel or the ten tribes, but spread itself into the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; for the Assyrian army, having taken Samaria, and carried Israel captive, in a short time, about seven or eight years, invaded Judea, and took the fenced cities of Judah in Hezekiah's time, in which Micah prophesied;

he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem; Sennacherib, king of Assyria, having taken the fenced cities, came up to the very gates of Jerusalem, and besieged it, where the courts of judicature were kept, and the people resorted to, to have justice done them; and Micah, being of the tribe of Judah, calls them his people, and was the more affected with their distress.

e אנושה מכותיה "desperata est plaga ejus", V. L. "plagae ejus", Montanus, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For her - Samaria’s

Wound - ^o, (literally, her wounds, or strokes, (the word is used especially of those inflicted by God, (Leviticus 26:21; Numbers 11:33; Deuteronomy 28:59, Deuteronomy 28:61, etc.) each, one by one,) is incurable The idiom is used of inflictions on the body politic (Nahum 3:0 ult.; Jeremiah 30:12, Jeremiah 30:15) or the mind , for which there is no remedy. The wounds were very sick, or incurable, not in themselves or on God’s part, but on Israel’s. The day of grace passes away at last, when man has so steeled himself against grace, as to be morally dead, having deadened himself to all capacity of repentance.

For it is come unto - (quite up to) Judah; he, (the enemy,) is come (literally, hath reached, touched,) to (quite up to) the gate of my people, even to (quite up to) Jerusalem Jerome: “The same sin, yea, the same punishment for sin, which overthrew Samaria, shall even come unto, quite up to Judah. Then the prophet suddenly changes the gender, and, as Scripture so often does, speaks of the one agent, the center and impersonation of the coming evil, as sweeping on over Judah, quite up to the gate of his people, quite up to Jerusalem. He does not say here, whether Jerusalem would be taken; and so, it seems likely that he speaks of a calamity short of excision. Of Israel’s wounds only he here says, that they are incurable; he describes the wasting of even lesser places near or beyond Jerusalem, the flight of their inhabitants. Of the capital itself he is silent, except that the enemy reached, touched, struck against it, quite up to it. Probably, then, he is here describing the first visitation of God, when 2 Kings 18:13 Sennacherib came up against all the fenced cities of Judah and took them, but Jerusalem was spared. God’s judgments come step by step, leaving time for repentance. The same enemy, although not the same king, came against Jerusalem who had wasted Samaria. Samaria was probably as strong as Jerusalem. Hezekiah prayed; God heard, the Assyrian army perished by miracle; Jerusalem was respited for 124 years.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. Her wound is incurable — Nothing shall prevent their utter ruin, for they have filled up the measure of their iniquity.

He is come - even to Jerusalem. — The desolation and captivity of Israel shall first take place; that of Judah shall come after.