Micah:2

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* Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds ! When the morning is light they practise it , because it is in the power of their hand . * And they covet fields , and take them by violence ; and houses , and take them away ; and they oppress a man and his house , even a man and his heritage . * Therefore thus saith Jehovah : Behold , against this family do I devise an evil , from which ye shall not remove your necks ; neither shall ye walk haughtily : for it is an evil time . * In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you , and lament with a doleful lamentation , [and ] say , We are utterly spoiled : he hath changed the portion of my people : how hath he removed it from me ! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious . * Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot , in the congregation of Jehovah . * Prophesy ye not , they prophesy . If they do not prophesy to these , the ignominy will not depart . * O thou [that art ] named the house of Jacob , Is Jehovah impatient ? are these his doings ? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly ? * But of late my people is risen up as an enemy : ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely , that are averse from war . * The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses ; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever . * Arise ye , and depart ; for this is not the resting-place , because of defilement that bringeth destruction , even a grievous destruction . * If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie , [saying ,] I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink , he shall be the prophet of this people . * I will surely assemble , O Jacob , the whole of thee ; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel ; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah , as a flock in the midst of their pasture : they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of ] men . * One that breaketh through is gone up before them : they have broken forth , and have passed on to the gate , and are gone out by it ; and their king passeth on before them , and Jehovah at the head of them .

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