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Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/micah/2-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/micah/2-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/micah/2-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/micah/1.htm">Micah</a> > <a href="/gntd/micah/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../micah/2-7.htm" title="Micah 2:7">◄</a> Micah 2:8 {7} <a href="../micah/2-9.htm" title="Micah 2:9">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/micah/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/micah/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD replies, "You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/micah/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/micah/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />My people, you have turned against one another! You have even stolen clothes right off the backs of innocent neighbors who pass by in peace. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/micah/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But you rise up against my people as an enemy: you have stripped off the garment from the peaceful, From those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/micah/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?</p><p class="hdg">of late.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/28-5.htm">2 Chronicles 28:5-8</a> And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/9-21.htm">Isaiah 9:21</a> After all these things his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</p><p class="hdg">with the garment.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/20-19.htm">2 Samuel 20:19</a> Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/28-8.htm">2 Chronicles 28:8</a> And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/55-20.htm">Psalm 55:20</a> He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/120-6.htm">Psalm 120:6,7</a> My soul hath been long a sojourner. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/micah/2.htm">The False Prophets</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?</span><span class="reftext">9</span>But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/120-6.htm">Psalm 120:6</a></span><br />My soul hath been long a sojourner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/120-7.htm">Psalm 120:7</a></span><br />With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/12-8.htm">Jeremiah 12:8</a></span><br />My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/3-2.htm">Micah 3:2</a></span><br />And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/3-3.htm">Micah 3:3</a></span><br />You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/7-2.htm">Micah 7:2</a></span><br />The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/7-3.htm">Micah 7:3</a></span><br />The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table 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