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Micah 2 - New International Version, 2011 bible

Micah 2

¹Woe 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.

²They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

³Therefore, 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.

⁴In that day people 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.’ ”

⁵Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

⁶“Do not prophesy,” their prophets say. “Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

⁷You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, “Does the LORD become [8] impatient? Does he do such things?” “Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?

⁸Lately 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.

⁹You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.

¹⁰Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

¹¹If a liar and deceiver comes and says, ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’ that would be just the prophet for this people!

¹²“I will surely gather all of you, 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.

¹³The 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.”