Micah
2:1 Woe 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.
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 saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise
an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye 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 hath changed the
portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he
hath divided our fields.
2:5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the
congregation of the LORD.
2:6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy
to them, that they shall not take shame.
2:7 O thou that art 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
walketh uprightly?
2:8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye 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 ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from
their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
2:10 Arise ye, 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 thee 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 thee; 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 is 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.
