“For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Micah 1 contains 16 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.