Micah 2

¹ Woe 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.

² They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³ Therefore thus says Yahweh: “Behold, against this family I am devising an evil, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

⁴ In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, ‘We are utterly ruined! He changes the portion of my people. How he removes it from me! To the rebellious he divides our fields.’

⁵ Therefore you will have no one who casts the line by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

⁶ “Don’t prophesy,” they prophesy. “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”

⁷ Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit impatient? Are these his doings?” Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?

⁸ But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe from those who pass by without care, returning from battle.

⁹ You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

¹⁰ Arise, and depart; for this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,’ he would even be the prophet of this people.

¹² “I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will make great noise because of many people.

¹³ He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. Their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.”