Micah 2:1-13
2 “Woe to those who are scheming what is harmful, and to those practicing what is bad, upon their beds!+ By the light of the morning they proceed to do it,+ because it is in the power of their hand.+
2 And they have desired fields and have seized [them];+ also houses, and have taken [them]; and they have defrauded an able-bodied man* and his household,+ a man* and his hereditary possession.+
3 “Therefore this is what Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am thinking up against this family+ a calamity+ from which YOU people will not remove YOUR necks,+ so that YOU will not walk haughtily;+ because it is a time of calamity.+
4 In that day one will raise up concerning YOU people a proverbial saying+ and will certainly lament a lamentation, even a lamentation.+ One will have to say: “We have positively been despoiled!+ The very portion of my people he alters.+ How he removes [it] from me! To the unfaithful one he apportions out our own fields.”
5 Therefore you will come to have no one casting out the cord, by lot,+ in the congregation* of Jehovah.
6 Do not YOU people let [words] drop.+ They let [words] drop. They will not let [words] drop concerning these [things]. Humiliations will not move away.+
7 “‘Is it being said, O house of Jacob:+ “Has the spirit of Jehovah* become discontented, or are these his dealings?”+ Do not my own words do good+ in the case of the one walking uprightly?+
8 “‘And yesterday my own people proceeded to rise up as an outright enemy.+ From the front of a garment YOU men strip off the majestic ornament, from the ones passing by confidently, [like] those returning from war.
9 The women of my people YOU drive out from the house in which a woman* has exquisite delight. From off her children YOU take my splendor,+ to time indefinite.+
10 Get up and go,+ because this is not a resting-place.+ Because of the fact that she has become unclean,+ there is a wrecking; and [the] wrecking work is painful.+
11 If a man,* walking by wind* and falsehood, has told the lie:+ “I shall let [words] drop to you concerning wine and concerning intoxicating liquor,” he also will certainly become the one letting [words] drop for this people.+
12 “‘I shall positively gather Jacob, all of you;+ I shall without fail collect the remaining ones* of Israel together.+ In unity I shall set them, like a flock in the pen,* like a drove in the midst of its pasture;+ they will be noisy with men.’*+
13 “The one making a breakthrough will certainly come up before them:+ they will actually break through. And they will pass through a gate, and they will go out by it.+ And their king will pass through before them, with Jehovah at the head of them.”+
Footnotes
^ “An able-bodied man.” Heb., geʹver.
^ “A man.” Heb., weʼishʹ.
^ Lit., “she.”
^ Heb., ʼish.
^ Or, “the remnant.”
^ “In the pen,” by a change of vowel pointing in agreement with TVg; M, “Bozrah.”
^ “With men.” Heb., me·ʼa·dhamʹ.
