For her wound is incurable.

Micah 1:1-9, The word of the LORD which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth and all it contains, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple. For behold, the LORD is coming forth from His place, He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth. The mountains will melt under Him, and the valleys will be split, like wax before the fire, like water poured down a steep place. All this is for the rebellion of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. what is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country, planting places for a vineyard. I will pour her stones down into the valley, and will lay bare her foundations. All of her idols will be smashed, all of her earnings will be burned with fire, and all of her images I will make desolate, for she collected them from a harlot’s earnings, and to the earnings of a harlot they will return Because of this I must lament and wail, I must go barefoot and naked; I must make a lament like the jackals and a mourning like the ostriches. For her wound is incurable, for it has come to Judah; it has reached the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Samaria, the northern ten tribes, is consumed with idolatry even bringing it inside Judah; Micah is sent to bring God’s word to them during the reign of three kings, Ahaz being one of the worst and Hezekiah one of the better. Matthew Henry’s commentary observes “The promises and threatenings of this book are interwoven, by which it appears that even in the wicked reign he preached comfort, and said to the righteous then that it should be well with them; and that in the pious reign he preached conviction, and said to the wicked then that it should be ill with them; for, however the times change, the word of the Lord is still the same.” There is a tendency to think in our own time that wicked leaders must not prevail, that God should do something about it. We are to be faithful to His word. Paul’s advice: to pray for those in authority, placed there by God, as His ministers. In his day, the leaders were ruthless and godless yet he counsels prayer for them! “Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord; I will repay.”

We thank You for this country, for our freedom; we thank You that You are in control of everything, working to Your good purpose. Bring revival to our sin sick land and let it spread over the face of the earth!