Micah 2
Woe to Oppressors
1Woe to those who ascheme iniquity,Who work out evil on their beds!
▼
▼ Lit In the light of the morning
,
cWhen morning comes, they do it,For it is in the dpower of their hands.
2They ecovet fields and then fseize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They ▼
▼ Lit oppress
,
hrob a man and his house,A man and his inheritance.
3Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am iplanning against this jfamily a calamity
From which you kcannot remove your necks;
And you will not walk lhaughtily,
For it will be an mevil time.
4“On that day they will ntake up against you a ▼
▼ Or proverb
tauntAnd ▼
▼ Lit lament
,
qutter a bitter lamentation and say,‘We are completely rdestroyed!
He exchanges the portion of my people;
How He removes it from me!
To the apostate He sapportions our fields.’
5“Therefore you will have no one ▼
▼ Lit casting
,
ustretching a measuring lineFor you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
6‘ vDo not ▼
▼ Lit flow
speak out,’ so they ▼▼ Lit flow
speak out.But if ▼
▼ I.e. God’s prophets
they do znot ▼▼ Lit flow
speak out concerning these things,abReproaches will not be turned back.
7“Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
‘Is the Spirit of the Lord acimpatient?
Are these His doings?’
Do not My words addo good
To the one aewalking uprightly?
8 ▼
▼ Lit And yesterday
“Recently My people have arisen as an agenemy—You ahstrip the ▼
▼ Or ornaments
robe off the garmentFrom ajunsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war.
9“The women of My people you akevict,
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her children you take My alsplendor forever.
10“Arise and go,
For this is no place amof rest
Because of the anuncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.
11“If a man walking after wind and aofalsehood
Had told lies and said,
‘I will ▼
▼ Lit flow
speak out to you concerning aqwine and liquor,’He would be ▼
▼ Lit one who flows oracles
spokesman to asthis people.12“I will surely atassemble all of you, Jacob,
I will surely gather the auremnant of Israel.
I will put them together like sheep in the fold;
Like a flock in the midst of its pasture
They will be noisy with men.
13“The breaker goes up before them;
They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it.
So their king goes on before them,
And the Lord at their head.”
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