God’s Word Rejected

“Quit your preaching,”(A) they[a] preach.
“They should not preach these things;(B)
shame will not overtake us.”[b](C)
House of Jacob, should it be asked,
“Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?(D)
Are these the things He does?”
Don’t My words bring good(E)
to the one who walks uprightly?(F)
But recently My people have risen up
like an enemy:(G)
You strip off the splendid robe(H)
from those who are passing through confidently,(I)
like those returning from war.
You force(J) the women of My people
out of their comfortable homes,
and you take My blessing[c](K)
from their children forever.
10 Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,(L)
because defilement(M) brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!(N)
11 If a man of wind[d] comes
and invents lies:(O)
“I will preach to you about wine and beer,”(P)
he would be just the preacher for this people!(Q)

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Notas al pie

  1. Micah 2:6 = the prophets
  2. Micah 2:6 Text emended; MT reads things. Shame will not depart.
  3. Micah 2:9 Perhaps the land
  4. Micah 2:11 Or spirit

True and False Prophets

“Don’t say such things,”
    the people respond.[a]
“Don’t prophesy like that.
    Such disasters will never come our way!”

Should you talk that way, O family of Israel?[b]
    Will the Lord’s Spirit have patience with such behavior?
If you would do what is right,
    you would find my words comforting.
Yet to this very hour
    my people rise against me like an enemy!
You steal the shirts right off the backs
    of those who trusted you,
making them as ragged as men
    returning from battle.
You have evicted women from their pleasant homes
    and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
10 Up! Begone!
    This is no longer your land and home,
for you have filled it with sin
    and ruined it completely.

11 Suppose a prophet full of lies would say to you,
    “I’ll preach to you the joys of wine and alcohol!”
That’s just the kind of prophet you would like!

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Notas al pie

  1. 2:6 Or the prophets respond; Hebrew reads they prophesy.
  2. 2:7 Hebrew O house of Jacob? See note on 1:5a.