Micah:2-3.
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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 .
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And they covet fields ,
and take them by violence ;
and houses ,
and take them away :
so they oppress a man and his house ,
even a man and his heritage .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
against this family do I devise an evil ,
from which ye shall not remove your necks ;
neither shall ye go haughtily :
for this time is evil .
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In that day shall one take up a parable against you ,
and lament with a doleful lamentation ,
and say ,
We be utterly spoiled :
he hath changed the portion of my people :
how hath he removed it from me !
turning away he hath divided our fields .
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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD .
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Prophesy ye not ,
say they to them that prophesy :
they shall not prophesy to them ,
that they shall not take shame .
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O thou that art named the house of Jacob ,
is the spirit of the LORD straitened ?
are these his doings ?
do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly ?
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Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy :
ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war .
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The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses ;
from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever .
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Arise ye ,
and depart ;
for this is not your rest :
because it is polluted ,
it shall destroy you ,
even with a sore destruction .
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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie ,
saying ,
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink ;
he shall even be the prophet of this people .
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I will surely assemble ,
O Jacob ,
all of thee ;
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel ;
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah ,
as the flock in the midst of their fold :
they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men .
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The breaker is come up before them :
they have broken up ,
and have passed through the gate ,
and are gone out by it :
and their king shall pass before them ,
and the LORD on the head of them .
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And I said ,
Hear ,
I pray you ,
O heads of Jacob ,
and ye princes of the house of Israel ;
Is it not for you to know judgment ?
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Who hate the good ,
and love the evil ;
who pluck off their skin from off them ,
and their flesh from off their bones ;
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Who also eat the flesh of my people ,
and flay their skin from off them ;
and they break their bones ,
and chop them in pieces ,
as for the pot ,
and as flesh within the caldron .
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Then shall they cry unto the LORD ,
but he will not hear them :
he will even hide his face from them at that time ,
as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings .
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Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err ,
that bite with their teeth ,
and cry ,
Peace ;
and he that putteth not into their mouths ,
they even prepare war against him .
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Therefore night shall be unto you ,
that ye shall not have a vision ;
and it shall be dark unto you ,
that ye shall not divine ;
and the sun shall go down over the prophets ,
and the day shall be dark over them .
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Then shall the seers be ashamed ,
and the diviners confounded :
yea ,
they shall all cover their lips ;
for there is no answer of God .
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But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD ,
and of judgment ,
and of might ,
to declare unto Jacob his transgression ,
and to Israel his sin .
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Hear this ,
I pray you ,
ye heads of the house of Jacob ,
and princes of the house of Israel ,
that abhor judgment ,
and pervert all equity .
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They build up Zion with blood ,
and Jerusalem with iniquity .
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The heads thereof judge for reward ,
and the priests thereof teach for hire ,
and the prophets thereof divine for money :
yet will they lean upon the LORD ,
and say ,
Is not the LORD among us ?
none evil can come upon us .
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field ,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps ,
and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest .
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But in the last days it shall come to pass ,
that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains ,
and it shall be exalted above the hills ;
and people shall flow unto it .
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