For this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals,and mourning like the ostriches. For her wound is incurable.It has come to Judah;it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. (Micah 1: 8-9)
While Hosea was prophesizing in Samara, Micah was active in Judea. Both focus on the spiritual promiscuity and perversion of the Northern Kingdom. Micah writes of Samaria:
All her images shall be beaten to pieces,
all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste;
for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them,
and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used. (verse 7)
But while Hosea is preaching to the people of Samaria, Micah is preaching to the Judeans and especially the people of Jerusalem.
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