Micah 2:11-13
The Message
8-11 “What do you mean, ‘good people’!
You’re the enemy of my people!
You rob unsuspecting people
out for an evening stroll.
You take their coats off their backs
like soldiers who plunder the defenseless.
You drive the women of my people
out of their ample homes.
You make victims of the children
and leave them vulnerable to violence and vice.
Get out of here, the lot of you.
You can’t take it easy here!
You’ve polluted this place,
and now you’re polluted—ruined!
If someone showed up with a good smile and glib tongue
and told lies from morning to night—
‘I’ll preach sermons that will tell you
how you can get anything you want from God:
More money, the best wines . . . you name it’—
you’d hire him on the spot as your preacher!
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12-13 “I’m calling a meeting, Jacob.
I want everyone back—all the survivors of Israel.
I’ll get them together in one place—
like sheep in a fold, like cattle in a corral—
a milling throng of homebound people!
Then I, God, will burst all confinements
and lead them out into the open.
They’ll follow their King.
I will be out in front leading them.”
Micah 2:11-13
New International Version
11 If a liar and deceiver(A) comes and says,
‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’(B)
that would be just the prophet for this people!(C)
Deliverance Promised
12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob;
I will surely bring together the remnant(D) of Israel.
I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,
like a flock in its pasture;
the place will throng with people.(E)
13 The One who breaks open the way will go up before(F) them;
they will break through the gate(G) and go out.
Their King will pass through before them,
the Lord at their head.”
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