Micah 2
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Micah 2
Social Evils Denounced
1 #
Prov 3.27; Isa 32.7; Hos 7.6, 7; Nah 1.11 Woe to those who devise wickedness
and evil deeds#2.1 Cn: Heb work evil on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in their power.
2 #
1 Kings 21.1–15; Isa 5.8; Am 8.4 They covet fields and seize them,
houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
people and their inheritance.
3 #
Deut 28.48; Isa 2.11, 12; Jer 18.11; Am 3.1, 2; 5.13 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 #
Isa 24.3; Jer 4.13; 6.12; 8.10; Mic 1.8; Hab 2.6 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#2.4 Heb he alters the inheritance of my people;
how he removes it from me!
Among our captors#2.4 Cn: Heb the rebellious he parcels out our fields.”
5 #
Josh 18.4, 10 Therefore you will have no one in the Lord’s assembly
to allot you a piece of land.
6 #
Isa 30.10; Am 2.12; 7.16; Mic 3.6; 6.16 “Do not preach”—thus they preach—
“one should not preach of such things;
disgrace will not overtake us.”
7Should 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?
8But you rise up against my people#2.8 Cn: Heb But yesterday my people rose as an enemy;
you strip the robe from the peaceful,#2.8 Cn: Heb from before a garment
from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.
9The women of my people you drive out
from their pleasant houses;
from their young children you take away
my glory forever.
10 #
Lev 18.25, 28, 29; Deut 12.9; Ps 106.38 Arise and go,
for this is no place to rest,
because of uncleanness that destroys
with a violent destruction.
11 #
Isa 28.7; 30.10, 11; Jer 5.13, 31 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!
A Promise for the Remnant of Israel
12 #
Jer 23.3; Mic 4.6, 7; 5.7, 8; 7.18 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 #
Isa 52.12; Hos 3.5 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.
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