Micah 2

Micah 2

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity

and work evil on their beds!

When the morning is light, they practice it,

because it is in the power of their hand.

²They covet fields, and seize them;

and houses, and take them away:

and they oppress a man and his house,

even a man and his heritage.

³Therefore thus says Yahweh:

“Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster,

from which you will not remove your necks,

neither will you walk haughtily;

for it is an evil time.

⁴In that day they will take up a parable against you,

and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying,

‘We are utterly ruined!

My people’s possession is divided up.

Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”

⁵Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.

⁶“Don’t prophesy!”

They prophesy.

“Don’t prophesy about these things.

Disgrace won’t overtake us.”

⁷Shall it be said, O house of Jacob:

“Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry?

Are these his doings?

Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

⁸But lately my people have risen up as an enemy.

You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.

⁹You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses;

from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

¹⁰Arise, and depart!

For this is not your resting place,

because of uncleanness that destroys,

even with a grievous destruction.

¹¹If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies:

“I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;”

he would be the prophet of this people.

¹²I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you;

I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;

I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,

as a flock in the midst of their pasture;

they will swarm with people.

¹³He who breaks open the way goes up before them.

They break through the gate, and go out.

And their king passes on before them,

with Yahweh at their head.