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Micah 2 English Standard Version (ESV)

Woe to the Oppressors

2 ^(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil ^(B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
²They covet fields and ^(C)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.
³Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against ^(D)this family I am devising disaster,^[a]
    from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you ^(E)shall not walk haughtily,
    ^(F)for it will be a time of disaster.
⁴In that day ^(G)they shall take up a taunt song against you
    and moan bitterly,
and say, “We are utterly ruined;
    ^(H)he changes the portion of my people;
^(I)how he removes it from me!
    ^(J)To an apostate he allots our fields.”
⁵Therefore you will have none ^(K)to cast the line by lot
    in the assembly of the Lord.

⁶^(L)“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
    ^(M)“one should not preach of such things;
    ^(N)disgrace will not overtake us.”
⁷Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
    ^(O)Has the Lord grown impatient?^[b]
    Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
    to him who walks uprightly?
⁸But lately ^(P)my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
    with no thought of war.^[c]
⁹The women of my people you drive out
    from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
    my splendor forever.
¹⁰^(Q)Arise and go,
    for this is no ^(R)place to rest,
because of ^(S)uncleanness that destroys
    with a grievous destruction.
¹¹If a man should go about and ^(T)utter wind and lies,
    saying, “I will preach to you ^(U)of wine and strong drink,”
    he would be the preacher for this people!
¹²I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
    ^(V)I will gather ^(W)the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
    like sheep in a fold,
^(X)like a flock in its pasture,
    a noisy multitude of men.
¹³^(Y)He who opens the breach goes up before them;
    they break through and pass the gate,
    ^(Z)going out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
    ^(AA)the Lord at their head.

English Standard Version (ESV)