Micah 2
2 1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds!
when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of
their hand.
2And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take
them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an
evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk
haughtily; for it is an evil time.
4In that day shall they take up a
parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say,
We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he
remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the
assembly of Jehovah.
6Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They
shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
7Shall it be
said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his
doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
8But of
late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the
garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
9The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from
their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
10Arise ye, and
depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that
destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
11If a man walking in a
spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine
and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12I
will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant
of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the
midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the
multitude of men.
13The breaker is gone up before them: they have
broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their
king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.
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