Keraia
Minor Prophets

Micah 2

Woe to Oppressors

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.

1Woe to those devising iniquity and working evil on their beds. In the light of morning they do it, because it is in the power of their hand.

2They covet fields and seize them;

they take away houses.

They deprive a man of his home,

a fellow man of his inheritance.

2And they desire fields, and seize them, and houses, and they take them; and they oppress a man and his house, a man and 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.

3Therefore, thus says YHWH: “Behold, I am planning calamity against this family that you cannot remove from your necks; and you will not walk haughtily, for it is 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.’”

4On that day he will take up over you a taunt, and will wail loudly, and say, ‘We are We are utterly ruined! The portion of my people He has changed—how He has removed it from me, and to a backturner He has divided our fields!’”

5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD

to divide the land by lot.

5Therefore there will be unto you no one casting the cord by lot in the assembly of YHWH.

Reproof of False Prophets

6“Do not preach,” they preach.

“Do not preach these things;

disgrace will not overtake us.”

6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach to 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?

7Will it be said, O house of Jacob, has the Spirit of YHWH been shortened, or “Are these His deeds?” Do not My words bring good upon the one walking 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.

8And lately My people have risen up as an enemy from the garment you strip off the magnificence, in security from those passing by, as those returning from battle.

9You drive the women of My people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away My blessing

from their children forever.

9The women of My people you cast out from the houses of her delight; from her children you have taken away My glory forever.

10Arise and depart,

for this is not your place of rest,

because its defilement brings destruction—

a grievous destruction!

10Rise and depart, for this is not a resting place, because it is defiled; it is destroyed and its destruction is grievous!

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!

11If a man should go about in the wind and falsely utter lies: “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” then he would be the prophet for this people!

The Remnant of Israel

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.

12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will surely assemble the remnant of Israel, I will put them together like sheep in an enclosure, like a flock in the midst of its pasture, that makes a noise because of man.

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.

13The one breaking it open before them will come up they will break out and will pass through the gate, and they will go out by it, and they will pass—their king before them, and with YHWH at their head.