| Micah 2:1 |
Woe to those who devise wickedness / And who prepare evil upon their beds! / In the light of the morning they do it / Because it is in the power of their hand [to do so.] |
| Micah 2:2 |
And they covet fields and seize [them, /] And houses, and take [them] away; / And they oppress a person and his house, / And a man and his inheritance. |
| Micah 2:3 |
Therefore thus says Jehovah, / I am now devising evil against this family, / From which you will not remove your necks; / And you will not go about haughtily, / For it is an evil time. |
| Micah 2:4 |
In that day they will take up a proverb concerning you, / And they will lament a lamenting lament; they will say, / We are utterly ruined; / He has changed the portion of my people. / How He removes [it] from me! / He has apportioned our fields to the rebellious. |
| Micah 2:5 |
Therefore you will have no one who casts the line by lot / In the congregation of Jehovah. |
| Micah 2:6 |
Do not prophesy, they prophesy. / [If the true prophets] do not prophesy concerning these things, / The reproaches will not be turned back. |
| Micah 2:7 |
Will it be said, O house of Jacob, / Is the Spirit of Jehovah hasty? / Are these His doings? / Do not My words benefit / Him who walks uprightly? |
| Micah 2:8 |
But recently My people / Have risen up as an enemy; / You strip away the mantle / From off the garment / Of those who pass by securely, / Those who turn away from conflict. |
| Micah 2:9 |
The women of My people you cast out, / From their pleasant houses; / From their young children you take away / My splendor forever. |
| Micah 2:10 |
Arise and go, / For this is not [your] resting place, / Because of the uncleanness / That brings destruction, indeed grievous destruction. |
| Micah 2:11 |
If a man going about / After wind and falsehood lies, [saying,] / I will prophesy to you / Concerning wine and liquor; / He would indeed become a prophet of this people. |
| Micah 2:12 |
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; / I will surely assemble the remnant of Israel. / I will place them together like the sheep of Bozrah, / Like the flock in the midst of its pasture; / They will make much noise because of the [many] men. |
| Micah 2:13 |
He who breaks through goes up before them; / They break through and pass through the gate, / And they go forth through it. / And their King goes forth before them; / Indeed Jehovah is at their head. |