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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/micah/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Woe to the Oppressors</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Woe to those who devise wickedness</span><br /><span class="indent">and work evil on their beds!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">When the morning dawns, they perform it,</span><br /><span class="indent">because it is in the power of their hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They covet fields and seize them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and houses, and take them away;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they oppress a man and his house,</span><br /><span class="indent">a man and his inheritance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">behold, against this family I am devising disaster,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">from which you cannot remove your necks,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and you shall not walk haughtily,</span><br /><span class="indent">for it will be a time of disaster.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you</span><br /><span class="indent">and moan bitterly,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and say, “We are utterly ruined;</span><br /><span class="indent">he changes the portion of my people;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">how he removes it from me!</span><br /><span class="indent">To an apostate he allots our fields.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot</span><br /><span class="indent">in the assembly of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Do not preach”—thus they preach—</span><br /><span class="indent">“one should not preach of such things;</span><br /><span class="indent">disgrace will not overtake us.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Should this be said, O house of Jacob?</span><br /><span class="indent">Has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> grown impatient?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Has the spirit of the LORD grown short?">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">Are these his deeds?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Do not my words do good</span><br /><span class="indent">to him who walks uprightly?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But lately my people have risen up as an enemy;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly</span><br /><span class="indent">with no thought of war.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or returning from war">c</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The women of my people you drive out</span><br /><span class="indent">from their delightful houses;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">from their young children you take away</span><br /><span class="indent">my splendor forever.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Arise and go,</span><br /><span class="indent">for this is no place to rest,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because of uncleanness that destroys</span><br /><span class="indent">with a grievous destruction.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If a man should go about and utter wind and lies,</span><br /><span class="indent">saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”</span><br /><span class="indent">he would be the preacher for this people!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will gather the remnant of Israel;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will set them together</span><br /><span class="indent">like sheep in a fold,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like a flock in its pasture,</span><br /><span class="indent">a noisy multitude of men.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He who opens the breach goes up before them;</span><br /><span class="indent">they break through and pass the gate,</span><br /><span class="indent">going out by it.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Their king passes on before them,</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> at their head.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> The same Hebrew word can mean <i>evil</i> or <i class="catch-word">disaster</i>, depending on the context<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">Has the</span> spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> grown short?</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>returning from war</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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