Woe to the Oppressors
2 (A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and (C)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against (D)this family I am devising disaster,[a]
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you (E)shall not walk haughtily,
(F)for it will be a time of disaster.
4 In that day (G)they shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, “We are utterly ruined;
(H)he changes the portion of my people;
(I)how he removes it from me!
(J)To an apostate he allots our fields.”
5 Therefore you will have none (K)to cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.
6 (L)“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
(M)“one should not preach of such things;
(N)disgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
(O)Has the Lord grown impatient?[b]
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
to him who walks uprightly?
8 But lately (P)my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.[c]
9 The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
10 (Q)Arise and go,
for this is no (R)place to rest,
because of (S)uncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
11 If a man should go about and (T)utter wind and lies,
saying, “I will preach to you (U)of wine and strong drink,”
he would be the preacher for this people!
12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
(V)I will gather (W)the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
(X)like a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
13 (Y)He who opens the breach goes up before them;
they break through and pass the gate,
(Z)going out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
(AA)the Lord at their head.
Footnotes
- Micah 2:3 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context
- Micah 2:7 Hebrew Has the spirit of the Lord grown short?
- Micah 2:8 Or returning from war
Cross references
- Micah 2:1 : [Isa. 10:1, 2]
- Micah 2:1 : [Ps. 36:4]
- Micah 2:2 : [Isa. 5:8]
- Micah 2:3 : [Jer. 8:3; Amos 3:1, 2]
- Micah 2:3 : [Isa. 2:11, 17]
- Micah 2:3 : Amos 5:13
- Micah 2:4 : Hab. 2:6; See Num. 23:7
- Micah 2:4 : [ch. 1:15]
- Micah 2:4 : [ch. 1:15]
- Micah 2:4 : [Ps. 68:6]
- Micah 2:5 : Deut. 32:8, 9; [Josh. 14:1, 2]
- Micah 2:6 : See Amos 2:12
- Micah 2:6 : [Amos 8:11, 12]
- Micah 2:6 : [Amos 8:10]
- Micah 2:7 : [See ver. 6 above]; See Amos 2:12
- Micah 2:8 : [2 Chr. 28:8]
- Micah 2:10 : [ch. 1:11, 16]
- Micah 2:10 : Deut. 12:9; [Heb. 13:14]
- Micah 2:10 : Lev. 18:25
- Micah 2:11 : Jer. 5:13
- Micah 2:11 : [Amos 2:12]
- Micah 2:12 : [2 Kgs. 25:11]
- Micah 2:12 : See ch. 4:7
- Micah 2:12 : [Jer. 31:10]
- Micah 2:13 : [2 Kgs. 25:10]
- Micah 2:13 : [ch. 4:10]
- Micah 2:13 : [Isa. 52:12]