“Woe to those who scheme iniquity, who work out evil on their beds. When morning comes they do it, for it is in what? The power of their hands.”
Micah 2
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1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
“Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds. For when the morning is light, they practice it because it had been in the power of their hands.”
“woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds, when the morning is light, they practice it, they practice it, because in the power of their hands,”
2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
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3Therefore this is what the LORD says: "I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
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4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: 'We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.'"
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5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
“Therefore, thou shalt have none that casts a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.”
6"Do not preach," they preach. "Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us."
“prophesy ye not, say to them that prophesy, they shall not prophesy to them that they shall not take shame.”
7Should it be said, O house of Jacob, "Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?" Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
“O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord straightened? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?”
“thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straightened? And are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh up rightly?”
“Is it being said, O house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord impatient? Are these His doings? Don't my words do good to the one who is walking uprightly?”
8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
“Even of late, God said, my people is risen up as an enemy. You pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men adverse from war.”
9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
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10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
“Arise ye and depart. For this is not your rest. Because it is polluted it shall destroy you even with a sore destruction.”
11If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be just the preacher for this people!
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12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.
“I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I'll put them together like sheep in the fold, like a flock in the midst of its pastor. They will be noisy with men.”
“I will surely assemble, oh Jacob, all of thee. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. And I will put them together as the sheep of Bozraz, the flock in the midst of their full. They shall make great noise by reason of the…”
13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
“The breaker has 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.”