Micah 2

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Micah chapter two begins with a denouncement of individuals who plot and execute evil, coveting and seizing fields, houses, and inheritances from others. In response, the LORD announces a disaster against this nation, leading to a time of calamity where people will taunt them with bitter laments about ruined portions and allotted fields given to traitors. The chapter notes that the people reject true prophecy and mistreat passersby by stripping their robes and driving women and children from their homes. Because of this defilement and destruction, the people are told to depart from the land. Finally, the chapter concludes with the LORD promising to gather the remnant of Israel like sheep in a pen, with their King and the LORD leading them as they break through the gate.

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¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. ²They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. ³Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. ⁴In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’” ⁵Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot. ⁶“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.” ⁷Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly? ⁸But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle. ⁹You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever. ¹⁰Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction! ¹¹If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people! ¹²I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng. ¹³One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.

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