Micah 2

World English Bible

2 Woe to those who devise iniquity
    and work evil on their beds!
When the morning is light, they practice it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
² They covet fields, and seize them;
    and houses, and take them away:
    and they oppress a man and his house,
    even a man and his heritage.
³ Therefore Yahweh says:
“Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster,
    from which you will not remove your necks,
    neither will you walk haughtily;
    for it is an evil time.
⁴ In that day they will take up a parable against you,
    and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying,
    ‘We are utterly ruined!
    My people’s possession is divided up.
    Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
⁵ Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
⁶ “Don’t prophesy!”
    They prophesy.
“Don’t prophesy about these things.
    Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
⁷ Shall it be said, O house of Jacob:
    “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry?
    Are these his doings?
    Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
⁸ But lately my people have risen up as an enemy.
    You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
⁹ You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses;
    from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
¹⁰ Arise, and depart!
    For this is not your resting place,
    because of uncleanness that destroys,
    even with a grievous destruction.
¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies:
    “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;”
    he would be the prophet of this people.
¹² I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you;
    I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
    as a flock in the middle of their pasture;
    they will swarm with people.
¹³ He who breaks open the way goes up before them.
    They break through the gate, and go out.
    And their king passes on before them,
    with Yahweh at their head.