Micah 2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021
Micah 2

¹ Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

² They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

³ Therefore thus says the Lord: Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk arrogantly, for it will be an evil time.

⁴ On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and wail with bitter lamentation and say, “We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.”

⁵ Therefore you will have no one in the Lord’s assembly to allot you a piece of land.

⁶ “Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

⁷ Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Lord’s patience exhausted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to one who walks uprightly?

⁸ But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

⁹ The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.

¹⁰ Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a violent destruction.

¹¹ If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” such a one would be the preacher for this people!

¹² I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the survivors of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture; it will resound with people.

¹³ The one who breaks out 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.