Mic 2 | ESV | STEP | Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds ! When the morning dawns , they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand .

p[See ver. 6 above]

r[2 Chr. 28:8]

t[ch. 1:11, 16]

u Deut. 12:9; [Heb. 13:14]

zSee ch. 4:7

‏ Micah 2

Woe to the Oppressors

1 ^aWoe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil ^bon their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and ^cseize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against ^dthis family I am devising disaster, ^{▼▼The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context}
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you ^fshall not walk haughtily,
^gfor it will be a time of disaster.
4 In that day ^hthey shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, “We are utterly ruined;
ⁱhe changes the portion of my people;
^jhow he removes it from me!
^kTo an apostate he allots our fields.”
5 Therefore you will have none ^lto cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.
6 ^m“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
ⁿ“one should not preach of such things;
^odisgrace will not overtake us.”
7 Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
^pHas the Lord grown impatient? ^{▼▼Hebrew Has the spirit of the Lord grown short?}
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
to him who walks uprightly?
8 But lately ^rmy people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war. ^{▼▼Or returning from war}
9 The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
10 ^tArise and go,
for this is no ^uplace to rest,
because of ^vuncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
11 If a man should go about and ^wutter wind and lies,
saying, “I will preach to you ^xof wine and strong drink,”
he would be the preacher for this people!
12 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
^yI will gather ^zthe remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
^aalike a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
13 ^abHe who opens the breach goes up before them;
they break through and pass the gate,
^acgoing out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
^adthe Lord at their head.