Micah 2
:1
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
1it is in the power of their hand
to do so.
Micah 2
:2
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
2:3
Therefore thus says Jehovah,
I am now devising evil against this
afamily,
From which you will not remove your necks;
And you will not go about haughtily,
For it is an evil time.
Micah 2
:4
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
2:5
Therefore you will have no one who casts the line by lot
In the congregation of Jehovah.
Micah 2
:6
2:6
aDo not prophesy, they prophesy.
If the true prophets do not prophesy concerning these things,
The reproaches will not be turned back.
Micah 2
:7
2:7
Will it be said, O house of Jacob,
Is the Spirit of Jehovah
1hasty?
Are these His doings?
Do not My words benefit
Him who walks uprightly?
Micah 2
:8
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
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
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
2:11
If a man going about
After wind and falsehood lies,
saying,
I will
aprophesy to you
Concerning wine and liquor;
He would indeed become a prophet of this people.
III.
Jehovah's comfort to Israel
2:12-13
Micah 2
:12
2:12
I will surely
1gather all of you, O Jacob;
I will surely assemble the
aremnant of Israel.
I will place them together like the
bsheep of Bozrah,
Like the flock in the midst of its pasture;
They will make much noise because of the
many men.
Micah 2
:13
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
aJehovah is at their head.
