Michée 2

¹ 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.

² And they covet fields, and seize them ; and houses, and take them away : and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³ Therefore thus saith Jehovah : Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily ; for it is an evil time.

⁴ In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined : he changeth the portion of my people : how doth he remove it from me ! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.

⁵ Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

⁶ Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these : reproaches shall not depart.

⁷ Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened ? are these his doings ? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly ?

⁸ But of late my people is risen up as an enemy : ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

⁹ The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses ; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.

¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart ; for this is not your resting-place ; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.

¹¹ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink ; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

¹² 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 a flock in the midst of their pasture ; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

¹³ The breaker is gone up before them : they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat ; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.