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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.
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!’”
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

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“Therefore this is what the Lord says,
‘I’m crafting evil against this family,
    from which you can’t escape.[a]
You won’t strut around arrogantly,
    because the times are evil.’
“When this happens,[b] someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully,
    ‘We are completely ruined!
        He has given my people’s heritage to others.[c]
    How he has removed it from me,
        dividing up our fields!’
“This is why there will not be left even a single person
    to settle boundary disputes[d] in the Lord’s community.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:3 Lit. can’t remove your necks
  2. Micah 2:4 Lit. In that day
  3. Micah 2:4 The Heb. lacks to others
  4. Micah 2:5 Lit. to stretch out a measuring line