Micah:2
nsb@Micah:2:1 @ »Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to.
nsb@Micah:2:2 @ »They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.«
nsb@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore Jehovah says: »Behold, against this family I plan bad things, from which you will not remove the burden. You will not be able to show pride for it is an evil time.
nsb@Micah:2:4 @ »In that day they will taunt you and speak mournfully with sorrow and much grief: We are utterly ruined! He exchanged the portion of my people and removed it from me. He divided our fields and gave them to the apostate.«
nsb@Micah:2:5 @ »You will not have any who cast the measuring line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
nsb@Micah:2:6 @ »Do not prophesy to me. They prophesy. But they will not prophesy these things.
nsb@Micah:2:7 @ »Will it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Do my words not do good for he who walks uprightly?
nsb@Micah:2:8 @ »Lately my people have become an enemy! You strip the robe off the garment from passersby, from men returning from war.
nsb@Micah:2:9 @ »You evict the women of my people from their pleasant houses. You remove the glory of their young children from generation to generation.
nsb@Micah:2:10 @ »Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.
nsb@Micah:2:11 @ »If a man who is a constant liar tells a lie saying: I will prophesy to you about wine and of strong drink; he would be the prophet of this people.
nsb@Micah:2:12 @ »I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel! I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture. They will make great noise because of the crowd of men.
nsb@Micah:2:13 @ »The breaker has gone ahead of them. They will pass through the gate and go out by it. Their king will lead them with Jehovah at the head of them.«