Micah 2:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸My people, you have turned against
    one another!
You have even stolen
    clothes right off the backs
of innocent neighbors
    who pass by in peace.^[a]
⁹You take over lovely homes
that belong to the women
    of my nation.
Then you cheat their children
out of the inheritance
    that comes from the Lord.^[b]

¹⁰Get out of here, you crooks!
You'll find no rest here.
You're not fit to belong
to the Lord's people,
and you will be destroyed.^[c]

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Footnotes

2.8 of innocent neighbors … peace: Or “of your unsuspecting soldiers returning home from battle.”
2.9 inheritance … Lord: The Hebrew text has “my glory,” which refers to the inheritance of land that the Lord had promised his people.
2.10 destroyed: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.