MICAH 2
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and 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 haughtily; for it is an evil time.
4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
6 Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
7 Shall it be said, 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: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse 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 rest: because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
11 If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah: 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 to the gate, and are gone out thereat: and their king is passed on before them, and the LORD at the head of them.
Cross-references
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- 1Psa 36:4, Isa 32:7, Psa 7:14–16, Hos 7:6–7, Nam 1:11, Pro 6:12–19, Pro 4:16, Rom 1:30
- 2Isa 5:8, Amo 8:4, Jer 22:17, Ezk 18:12, Neh 5:1–5, Job 24:2–12, Mic 3:9, 1Ki 21:2–19
- 3Isa 2:11–12, Jer 8:3, Amo 5:13, Jer 18:11, Jas 2:13, Lam 2:17, Isa 28:14–18, Lam 5:5
- 4Hab 2:6, Num 23:7, Jer 9:10, Isa 6:11, Mic 1:15, Jer 9:17–21, Deu 28:29, Isa 24:3
- 5Deu 32:8, Jos 18:4, Jos 18:10, Neh 7:61, Deu 23:2, Psa 16:6, Hos 9:3, Deu 23:8
- 6Amo 2:12, Isa 30:10, Act 5:40, Ezk 3:26, Ezk 21:2, Mic 6:16, Act 5:28, Act 4:17
- 7Psa 84:11, Jer 15:16, Psa 15:2, Pro 28:18, Pro 10:9, Isa 50:2, Psa 19:7–11, Hos 14:9
- 82Sa 20:19, Psa 120:6–7, Isa 9:21, Psa 55:20, 2Ch 28:5–8
- 9Luk 20:47, Hab 2:14, Ezk 39:21, Mic 2:2, Zec 2:5, Mrk 12:40, 2Co 3:18, Jer 10:20
- 10Deu 12:9, Psa 106:38, Heb 4:1–9, 2Ki 17:6, Jos 23:15–16, Jer 9:19, 2Ki 15:29, Deu 30:18
- 11Jer 5:31, 2Co 11:13–15, Isa 30:10–11, Jer 23:17, Jer 14:14, Jer 28:15, Jer 23:25, Jer 8:10–11
- 12Mic 4:6–7, Jer 31:7–10, Ezk 37:21, Hos 1:11, Mic 5:7, Zec 10:6–8, Jer 23:3, Mic 7:18
- 13Isa 52:12, Zec 9:14–15, Isa 45:1–2, Jhn 10:27–30, Heb 2:14–15, Rev 7:17, Rev 17:14, Heb 6:20