Micah 2 ISV BSB Parallel

◄ Micah 2 ►

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1"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

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.

2They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.

2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

3"Therefore this is what the LORD says, 'I'm crafting evil against this family, from which you can't escape. You won't strut around arrogantly, because the times are evil.'

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.

4"When this happens, someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully, 'We are completely ruined! He has given my people's heritage to others. How he has removed it from me, dividing up our fields!'

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.’ ”

5"This is why there will not be left even a single person to settle boundary disputes in the LORD's community.

5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

6To those who speak out, they will declare, 'Don't prophesy to anyone!' so their shame won't go away.

6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

7"It is said, house of Jacob, 'The Spirit of the LORD is limited, if he acts this way, is he not?' "But my words benefit those who live righteously, do they not?

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?

8Lately my people have acted like an enemy— you strip travelers who thought they were as secure as those who return from war.

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.

9You have evicted the wives of my people from their dream homes; you have removed my majesty from their children permanently.

9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

10"Get up and go, because there's no rest for you here! Since everything is polluted, it can only cause destruction, even heavy destruction.

10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

11Suppose a man who keeps company with a deceiving spirit prophesies like this: 'Drink wine and strong drink!' Won't the people accept him as a prophet?"

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!

12"Jacob, how I will surely gather all of you! How I will gather the survivors of Israel! I will gather them together like sheep in a pen, like the flock in the midst of the sheepfold. There will be a great commotion because of all the people.

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.

13God will stand up and break through in their presence. Then they will pass through the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass in front of them with the LORD at their head."

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.

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