Micah

2 1 WOE to them that ^adevise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because ^bit is in the power of their hand.

2 And ^cthey covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they ¹oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; ^dBehold, against this ^efamily do I devise an evil, ^ffrom which ye shall not remove your necks; ^gneither shall ye go haughtily: for ^hthis time is evil.

4 ¶In that day shall one take up ⁱa parable against you, and lament ²with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: ^jhe hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! ³turning away he hath divided our fields.

5 Therefore ^kthou shalt have none that shall ^lcast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

6 ^m4Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: ⁿthey shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

7 ¶O thou that art ^onamed the house of Jacob, ^pis the spirit of the LORD ^5*straitened? are these his doings? ^qdo not my words do good to him that walketh ⁶uprightly?

8 ^rEven ⁷of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe ⁸with the garment from them that pass by ^*securely as men averse from war.

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

10 ^sArise ye, and depart; for this is not ^tyour rest: ^ubecause it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a ^*sore destruction.

11 ^vIf a man ¹⁰walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; ^whe shall even be the prophet of this people.

12 ¶I ^xwill surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; ^yI will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall ^zmake great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

13 The ^abreaker is come up before them: ^bthey have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and ^ctheir king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.