Micah
2
- Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those
who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because
it is in their power to do it.
- They covet fields and seize them, and houses,
and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance.
- Therefore, the LORD says: "I am planning
disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will
no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
- In that day men will ridicule you; they
will taunt you with this mournful song: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's
possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.'"
- Therefore you will have no one in the assembly
of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
- "Do not prophesy," their prophets
say. "Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake
us."
- Should it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is
the Spirit of the LORD angry? Does he do such things?" "Do not my
words do good to him whose ways are upright ?
- Lately my people have risen up like an enemy.
You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men
returning from battle.
- You drive the women of my people from their
pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
- Get up, go away! For this is not your resting
place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
- If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I
will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' he would be just the prophet
for this people !
- "I will surely gather all of you, O
Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them
together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will
throng with people.
- One who breaks open the way will go up before
them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their king will pass through
before them, the LORD at their head."
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