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MICAH ยท Chapter 2
2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!
when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power
of their hand.
2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and
take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his
heritage.
2:3 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family do I
devise an evil, from which all of you shall not remove your necks; neither
shall all of you go haughtily: for this time is evil.
2:4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament
with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed
the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he
has divided our fields.
2:5 Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in
the congregation of the LORD.
2:6 Prophesy all of you not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall
not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
2:7 O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD
straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks
uprightly?
2:8 Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: all of you pull
off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse
from war.
2:9 The women of my people have all of you cast out from their pleasant
houses; from their children have all of you taken away my glory for ever.
2:10 Arise all of you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because
it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I
will prophesy unto you of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people.
2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather
the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by
reason of the multitude of men.
2:13 The breaker has come up before them: they have broken up, and
have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall
pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
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