Micah 2
1 Woe to those who plot evil and scheme wrongdoing in their beds! At daybreak they carry it out, because they have the power to do it.
2 They covet fields and seize them, covet houses and take them. They oppress a man and his household, a person and their inheritance.
3 Therefore, this is what the LORD says: “Look, I am planning a disaster against this family, one from which you cannot free your necks. You will not walk with your heads held high, because this will be an evil time.
4 On that day people will recite a proverb about you and sing a bitter lament, saying, ‘We have been utterly ruined! He has taken away my people’s share. How he removes it from me! He gives our fields to the unfaithful.’
5 Therefore, you will have no one to cast the measuring line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.”
6 “Do not preach!” they preach. “No one should preach about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 House of Jacob, should this be said? Has the Spirit of the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do my words not do good to those who walk uprightly?
8 But yesterday my people rose up like an enemy: you strip the cloak from the clothing of those who pass by in confidence, like people returning from war.
9 You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes; you take my splendor from their young children forever.
10 Get up and go, for this is no place of rest. Because of the defilement that destroys, destruction will be painful.
11 If a man were to follow wind and lies, and say, ‘I will preach to you about wine and strong drink,’ he would be the preacher for this people.
12 I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of its pasture, and there will be a great noise of people.
13 The one who breaks through will go up ahead of them. They will break through, pass through the gate, and go out through it. Their king will pass on ahead of them, and the LORD will be at their head.
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