Micah 2:1-13
2 “Woe to those who scheme what is harmful,Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning light comes they carry it out,Because it is in the power of their hand.+
2 They desire fields and seize them;+Also houses, and they take them;They defraud a man of his house,+A man of his inheritance.
3 Therefore this is what Jehovah says:
‘Here I am devising against this family a calamity+ from which you will not escape.*+
You will no longer walk haughtily,+ for it is a time of calamity.+
4 In that day people will recite a proverb concerning you,And they will bitterly lament over you.+
They will say: “We are completely devastated!+
He caused the portion of my people to change hands—how he removes it from me!+
To the unfaithful one he assigns our fields.”
5 So you will have no one to stretch the measuring cord,To allot the land in the congregation of Jehovah.
6 “Stop preaching!” they preach,“They should not preach these things;Humiliation will not overtake us!”
7 Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
“Has the spirit of Jehovah become impatient?
Are these his deeds?”
Do not my own words bring good to those walking uprightly?
8 But lately my own people have risen up as an enemy.
You openly strip off the majestic ornament with* the garmentFrom those passing by confidently, like those returning from war.
9 You drive the women of my people out from their delightful houses;From their children you take away my splendor forever.
10 Get up and go, for this is no place of rest.
Because of uncleanness,+ there is destruction, grievous destruction.+
11 If a man walks after wind and deception and tells this lie:
“I will preach to you about wine and alcoholic drink,”
Then he would be just the preacher for this people!+
12 I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob;I will surely collect the remaining ones of Israel together.+
In unity I will place them, like sheep in the pen,Like a flock in its pasture;+It will be noisy with people.’+
13 The one breaking out will go before them;They will break out and pass through the gate and go out by it.+
Their king will pass through before them,With Jehovah at their head.”+