Micah 2:6-11
Legacy Standard Bible
6 ‘(A)Do not speak, dripping out words,’ they say while dripping out words.
But if [a]they do (B)not drip out words concerning these things,
(C)Dishonor will not be turned back.
7 Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
‘Is the Spirit of Yahweh (D)impatient?
Are these His deeds?’
Do not My words (E)do good
To the one (F)walking uprightly?
8 [b]And recently My people have arisen as an (G)enemy—
You (H)strip the [c]robe off the garment
From (I)unsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war.
9 The women of My people you (J)drive out,
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her infants you take My (K)splendor forever.
10 Arise and go,
For this is no place (L)of rest
Because of the (M)uncleanness that wreaks destruction,
A painful destruction.
11 If a man walking after wind and (N)lying
Had acted falsely and said,
‘I will speak, dripping out words to you concerning (O)wine and liquor,’
He would be one who drips out words as a spokesman to (P)this people.
Micah 2:6-11
New Living Translation
True and False Prophets
6 “Don’t say such things,”
the people respond.[a]
“Don’t prophesy like that.
Such disasters will never come our way!”
7 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.
8 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.
9 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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