Micah 2
Woe to Those Who
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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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