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Micah 2:1
New English Translation

Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land

2 Beware wicked schemers,[a]
those who devise calamity as they lie in bed.[b]
As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans,[c]
because they have the power to do so.

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  1. Micah 2:1 tn Heb “those who think up evil.”
  2. Micah 2:1 tn Heb “upon their beds.”
  3. Micah 2:1 tn Heb “at the light of morning they do it.”
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Micah 2:2
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2 They confiscate the fields they desire
and seize the houses they want.[a]
They defraud people of their homes[b]
and deprive people of the land they have inherited.[c]

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  1. Micah 2:2 tn Heb “they desire fields and rob [them], and houses and take [them] away.”
  2. Micah 2:2 tn Heb “and they oppress a man and his home.”
  3. Micah 2:2 tn Heb “and a man and his inheritance.” The verb עָשַׁק (ʿashaq, “to oppress”; “to wrong”) does double duty in the parallel structure and is understood by ellipsis in the second line.
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