Mic 2
1
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is
light, they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; thus they oppress
a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3
Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from
which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk upright; for it shall
be an evil time.
4
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation,
and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he
remove it from me! Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'
5
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation
of the LORD.
6
'Preach ye not', they preach; 'They shall not preach of these things, that they shall
not take shame.'
7
Do I change, O house of Jacob? Is the spirit of the LORD straitened? Are these His
doings? Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
8
But of late My people is risen up as an enemy; with the garment ye strip also the
mantle from them that pass by securely, so that they are as men returning from war.
9
The women of My people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children
ye take away My glory for ever.
10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of the uncleanness
thereof, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11
If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will preach unto thee of wine and
of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of this people.
12
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of
Israel; I will render them all as sheep in a fold; as a flock in the midst of their
pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
13
The breaker is gone up before them; they have broken forth and passed on, by the gate,
and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and the LORD at
the head of them.