Micah 2 ISV NIV 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 plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

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, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their 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, the LORD says: "I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk 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 people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns 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 prophesy," their prophets say. "Do not prophesy about 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?

7You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, "Does the LORD become impatient? Does he do such things?" "Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?

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

8Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, 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.

10Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

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 liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' that would be just the prophet 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.

12"I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.

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."

13The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD at their head."

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