Micah 2 - 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

2 1 Threatenings against the wanton and dainty people. 6 They would teach the Prophets to preach.

1 Woe unto them that imagine iniquity, and work wickedness upon their beds: [a]when the morning is light they practice it, because their hand [b]hath power.

2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even man and his heritage.

3 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family have I devised a plague, whereout ye shall not pluck your necks, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is evil.

4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, [c]We be utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it unto me? he hath divided our fields.

5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in [d]the congregation of the Lord.

6 [e]They that prophesy, Prophesy ye not. [f]They shall not prophesy to them, neither shall they take shame.

7 O thou that art named of the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord shortened? [g]are these his works? are not my works good unto him [h]that walketh uprightly?

8 But he that was [i]yesterday my people, is risen up on the other side, as against an enemy: they spoil the [j]beautiful garment from them that pass by peaceably, as though they returned from the war.

9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their children have ye taken away [k]my glory continually.

10 Arise and depart, for this is not your [l]rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

11 If a man [m]walk in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, [n]I will prophesy unto thee of wine, and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.

12 I will surely gather [o]thee wholly, O Jacob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, even as the flock in the midst of their fold: the cities shall be full of brute of the men.

13 The [p]breaker up shall come up before them: they shall break out, and pass by the gate, and go out by it, and their king shall go before them, and the Lord shall be [q]upon their heads.

Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:1 As soon as they rise, they execute their wicked devices of the night, and according to their power hurt others.
  2. Micah 2:1 Hebrew, is in power.
  3. Micah 2:4 Thus the Jews lament and say that there is no hope of restitution, seeing their possessions are divided among the enemies.
  4. Micah 2:5 Ye shall have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee.
  5. Micah 2:6 Thus the people warn the prophets that they speak to them no more, for they cannot abide their threatenings.
  6. Micah 2:6 God saith that they shall not prophesy, nor receive no more of their rebukes nor taunts.
  7. Micah 2:7 Are these your works according to his Law?
  8. Micah 2:7 Do not the godly find my words comfortable?
  9. Micah 2:8 That is, aforetime.
  10. Micah 2:8 The poor can have no commodity by them, but they spoil them, as though they were enemies.
  11. Micah 2:9 That is, their substance and living, which is God’s blessing, and as it were part of his glory.
  12. Micah 2:10 Jerusalem shall not be your safeguard: but the cause of your destruction.
  13. Micah 2:11 That is, show himself to be a Prophet.
  14. Micah 2:11 He showeth what prophets they delight in, that is, in flatterers, which tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their commodities.
  15. Micah 2:12 To destroy thee.
  16. Micah 2:13 The enemy shall break their gates and walls, and lead them into Chaldea.
  17. Micah 2:13 To drive them forward, and to help their enemies.

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