Micah 2 (New American Standard Bible)

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Micah 2

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Woe to Oppressors

2 Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
^[a]When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.
²They covet fields and then seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They ^[b]rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

³Therefore thus says the Lord,

“Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity
From which you cannot remove your necks;
And you will not walk haughtily,
For it will be an evil time.
⁴“On that day they will take up against you a ^[c]taunt
And ^[d]utter a bitter lamentation and say,
‘We are completely destroyed!
He exchanges the portion of my people;
How He removes it from me!
To the apostate He apportions our fields.’
⁵“Therefore you will have no one ^[e]stretching a measuring line
For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.

⁶‘Do not ^[f]speak out,’ so they ^[g]speak out.
But if ^[h]they do not ^[i]speak out concerning these things,
Reproaches will not be turned back.
⁷“Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
‘Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?
Are these His doings?’
Do not My words do good
To the one walking uprightly?
⁸“^[j]Recently My people have arisen as an enemy—
You strip the ^[k]robe off the garment
From unsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war.
⁹“The women of My people you evict,
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her children you take My splendor forever.
¹⁰“Arise and go,
For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.
¹¹“If a man walking after wind and falsehood
Had told lies and said,
‘I will ^[l]speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’
He would be ^[m]spokesman to this people.

¹²“I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant 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.”