Micah 2

Tree of Life Version

³ Therefore, thus said Adonai:
“Behold, I am scheming a calamity against this family
    from which you cannot remove your necks.
Then you will not walk haughtily,
for it will be a time of distress.”
⁴ In that day He will lift up a parable for you,
and there will be wailing lamentation,
saying: “We have been utterly ruined!
He changes the portion of my people.
How He removes it from me!
To the faithless He apportions our fields!”
⁵ Therefore you will have no one casting for territory
    by lot in the congregation of Adonai.

⁶ “Do not prophesy,” they prophesy.
Unless they prophesy about such things,
    He will not turn back reproaches.”
⁷ Is it said, “O house of Jacob,
is the Ruach Adonai short of patience?
Are these His deeds?”
“Do not My words deal well
    with one who walks uprightly?”
⁸ But recently My people arose as an enemy.
You strip off the outer robe of a garment
from those passing through confidently—
those returning from war.
⁹ The wives of My people you cast out
    from their exquisite houses.
From her young children
    you take away My splendor, forever.
¹⁰ Arise and go!
For this is not the resting place,
    because of uncleanness that destroys—
    a grievous destruction.
¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood speaks lies—
    “I will prophesy for you of wine and strong drink”—
Then he would be a spokesman of this people.

¹² “I will surely gather Jacob—all of you!
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel.
I will put them together like sheep in a pen,
    like a flock within its pasture.
They will be noisy with people.
¹³ One breaking through will go up before them.^[a]
They will break through,
pass through the gate and go out by it.^[b]
Their King will pass through before them
    —Adonai at their head!”