Micah:2

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* Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds ! When the morning dawns , they perform it , because it is in the power of their hand . * They covet fields , and seize them ; and houses , and take them away ; they oppress a man and his house , a man and his inheritance . * Therefore thus says the LORD : Behold , against this family I am devising evil , from which you cannot remove your necks ; and you shall not walk haughtily , for it will be an evil time . * In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you , and wail with bitter lamentation , and say , "We are utterly ruined ; he changes the portion of my people ; how he removes it from me ! Among our captors he divides our fields ." * Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD . * "Do not preach "--thus they preach --"one should not preach of such things ; disgrace will not overtake us ." * Should this be said , O house of Jacob ? Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient ? Are these his doings ? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly ? * But you rise against my people as an enemy ; you strip the robe from the peaceful , from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war . * The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses ; from their young children you take away my glory for ever . * Arise and go , for this is no place to rest ; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction . * If a man should go about and utter wind and lies , saying , "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink ," he would be the preacher for this people ! * I will surely gather all of you , O Jacob , I will gather the remnant of Israel ; I will set them together like sheep in a fold , like a flock in its pasture , a noisy multitude of men . * He who opens the breach will go up before them ; they will break through and pass the gate , going out by it . Their king will pass on before them , the LORD at their head .

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