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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../micah/1.htm" title="Micah 1">◄</a> Micah 2 <a href="../micah/3.htm" title="Micah 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Social Evils Denounced</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Alas for those who devise wickedness</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and evil deeds<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26869a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> on their beds!</span></span><br /><span class="text">When the morning dawns, they perform it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because it is in their power.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>They covet fields, and seize them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">houses, and take them away;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they oppress householder and house,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">people and their inheritance.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Therefore thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">Now, I am devising against this family an evil</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from which you cannot remove your necks;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and you shall not walk haughtily,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for it will be an evil time.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and wail with bitter lamentation,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and say, “We are utterly ruined;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26872b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> alters the inheritance of my people;</span></span><br /><span class="text">how he removes it from me!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Among our captors<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26872c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> he parcels out our fields.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the assembly of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>“Do not preach”—thus they preach—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“one should not preach of such things;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">disgrace will not overtake us.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Should this be said, O house of Jacob?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>’s patience exhausted?</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Are these his doings?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Do not my words do good</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to one who walks uprightly?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But you rise up against my people<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26876d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> as an enemy;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you strip the robe from the peaceful,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26876e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">from those who pass by trustingly</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with no thought of war.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The women of my people you drive out</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from their pleasant houses;</span></span><br /><span class="text">from their young children you take away</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my glory forever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Arise and go;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for this is no place to rest,</span></span><br /><span class="text">because of uncleanness that destroys</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with a grievous destruction.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26878f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">such a one would be the preacher for this people!</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">A Promise for the Remnant of Israel</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will gather the survivors of Israel;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will set them together</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like sheep in a fold,</span></span><br /><span class="text">like a flock in its pasture;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it will resound with people.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The one who breaks out will go up before them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they will break through and pass the gate,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">going out by it.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Their king will pass on before them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> at their head.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 2:1">Micah 2:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>work evil</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 2:4">Micah 2:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 2:4">Micah 2:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>the rebellious</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 2:8">Micah 2:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>But yesterday my people rose</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 2:8">Micah 2:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>from before a garment</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 2:10">Micah 2:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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