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Micah  


2 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickednessand work evilon their beds!When the morning dawns, they perform it,because it is in the power of their hand.
2 : 2 They covet fields andseize them,and houses, and take them away;they oppress a man and his house,a man and his inheritance.
2 : 3 Therefore thus says theLord:behold, againstthis family I am devising disaster,from which you cannot remove your necks,and youshall not walk haughtily,for it will be a time of disaster.
2 : 4 In that daythey shall take up a taunt song against youand moan bitterly,and say,We are utterly ruined;he changes the portion of my people;how he removes it from me!To an apostate he allots our fields.
2 : 5 Therefore you will have noneto cast the line by lotin the assembly of theLord.
2 : 6 Do not preach&emdash;thus they preach&emdash;one should not preach of such things;disgrace will not overtake us.
2 : 7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob?Has theLordgrown impatient?Are these his deeds?Do not my words do goodto him who walks uprightly?
2 : 8 But latelymy people have risen up as an enemy;you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustinglywith no thought of war.
2 : 9 The women of my people you drive outfrom their delightful houses;from their young children you take awaymy splendor forever.
2 : 10 Arise and go,for this is noplace to rest,because ofuncleanness that destroyswith a grievous destruction.
2 : 11 If a man should go about andutter wind and lies,saying,I will preach to youof wine and strong drink,he would be the preacher for this people!
2 : 12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;I will gatherthe remnant of Israel;I will set them togetherlike sheep in a fold,like a flock in its pasture,a noisy multitude of men.
2 : 13 He who opens the breach goes up before them;they break through and pass the gate,going out by it.Their king passes on before them,theLordat their head.