Mic 1:9 | NETfull | STEP | For Samaria’s disease is incurable. It has infected Judah; it has spread to the leadership of my people and has even contaminated Jerusalem!

Micah 1:9

9 For Samaria’s ^{▼▼ Heb “her”; the referent (Samaria) has been specified in the translation for clarity.} disease ^{▼▼ The MT reads the plural “wounds”; the singular is read by the LXX, Syriac, and Vg.} ^{▼▼ Or “wound.”} is incurable.
It has infected ^{▼▼ Heb “come to.”} Judah;
it has spread to ^{▼▼ Or “reached.”} the leadership ^{▼▼ Heb “the gate.” Kings and civic leaders typically conducted important business at the city gate (see 1 Kgs 22:10 for an example), and the term is understood here to refer by metonymy to the leadership who would be present at the gate.} of my people
and has even contaminated Jerusalem! ^{▼▼ Heb “to Jerusalem.” The expression “it has contaminated” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to fill out the parallelism with the preceding line.} ^{▼▼ For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; Journey of Paul map 1-F4; Journey of Paul map 2-F4; Journey of Paul map 3-F4; Journey of Paul map 4-F4.}