Micah 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 Woe to those who imagine iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because their hand has power.

² And they covet fields and houses and take them by violence and take them away. So, they oppress a man and his house, man and his heritage.

³ Therefore, thus says the LORD: “Behold, I have planned misery against this family, from which you cannot remove your necks. And you shall not go proudly; for this time shall be miserable.

⁴ “At that time, they shall take up a parable against you and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has exchanged the portion of my people. How can He take it away! He has divided our fields!’

⁵ “Therefore, you shall have no one who shall cast a measuring line by lot in the Congregation of the LORD.

⁶ “Those who prophesy, do not prophesy. They shall not prophesy to them. Nor shall they take shame.

⁷ “O you who are named of the House of Jacob! Is the Spirit of the LORD shortened? Are these His works? Are not My works good to him who walks uprightly?

⁸ “But those who were My people yesterday have risen up on the other side, as against an enemy. They strip the beautiful garment from those who pass by peacefully, as though they returned from the war.

⁹ “You have cast out the women of My people from their pleasant houses. You have continually taken away My Glory from their children.

¹⁰ “Arise and depart! For this is not your rest. Because it is polluted, it shall be destroyed with a severe destruction.

¹¹ “If a man walks in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine, and of strong drink,’ even he would be a ‘prophet’ of this people.

¹² “I will surely gather you wholly, O Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold, full of the noise of men.

¹³ “The breaker shall come up before them. They shall break out and pass by the gate and go out by it. And their king shall go before them. And the LORD shall be upon their heads.”