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Micah 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 2
Woe to Evildoers
Woe to the Oppressor of the Poor
1 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
​​And work out evil on their beds!
​​At morning light they practice it,
​​Because it is in the power of their hand.
2 ​​They covet fields and take them by violence,
​​Also houses, and seize them.
​​So they oppress a man and his house,
​​A man and his inheritance.
​
3 Therefore thus says the LORD:
​
​​“Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,
​​From which you cannot remove your necks;
​​Nor shall you walk haughtily,
​​For this is an evil time.
4 ​​In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
​​And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
​‘​We are utterly destroyed!
​​He has changed the heritage of my people;
​​How He has removed it from me!
​​To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”
​
5 ​​Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries[fn] by lot
​​In the assembly of the LORD.
​
Lying Prophets
6 ​​“Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy.
​​So they shall not prophesy to you;[fn]
​​They shall not return insult for insult.[fn]
7 ​​You who are named the house of Jacob:
​​“Is the Spirit of the LORD restricted?
​​Are these His doings?
​​Do not My words do good
​​To him who walks uprightly?
​
8 ​​“Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—
​​You pull off the robe with the garment
​​From those who trust you, as they pass by,
​​Like men returned from war.
9 ​​The women of My people you cast out
​​From their pleasant houses;
​​From their children
​​You have taken away My glory forever.
​
10 ​​“Arise and depart,
​​For this is not your rest;
​​Because it is defiled, it shall destroy,
​​Yes, with utter destruction.
11 ​​If a man should walk in a false spirit
​​And speak a lie, saying,
​‘​I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,’
​​Even he would be the prattler of this people.
​
Israel Restored
12 ​​“I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
​​I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
​​I will put them together like sheep of the fold,[fn]
​​Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;
​​They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.
13 ​​The one who breaks open will come up before them;
​​They will break out,
​​Pass through the gate,
​​And go out by it;
​​Their king will pass before them,
​​With the LORD at their head.”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally one casting a surveyor’s line
Literally to these
Vulgate reads He shall not take shame.
Hebrew Bozrah
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