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Micah 2

1 Threatenings against the wanton the deintie people. 6 They would teach the Prophets to preach.
1.Wo unto them, that imagine iniquity, and work wickedness upon their beds: when the morning is light they practice it because their hand hath power.
2.And they covet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even man and his heritage.
3.Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, against this family have I devised a plague, whereout ye shal not pluck your necks, and ye shal not go so proudly, for this time is evil.
4.In that day shal they take up a parable against you, and lament with a dolful lamentation, and say, We be utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it unto me? he hath divided our fields.
5.Therefore thou shalt have none that shal cast a coard by lot in the Congregation of the Lord.
6.They that prophecied, Prophecie ye not. They shal not prophecie to them, neither shal they take shame.
7.O thou that art named the house of Jaakób, is the Spirit of the Lord shortened? are these his works? are not my words good unto him that walketh uprightly?
8.But he that was yester day my people, is risen up on the other side, as against an enemie: they spoil the beautiful garment from them that pass by peaceably, as though they returned from the war.
9.The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their children have ye taken away my glorie continually.
10.Arise and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shal destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11.If a man walk in the Spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, I will prophecie unto thee of wine, and of strong drink, he shal even be the Prophet of this people.
12.I will surely gather thee wholly, ô Jaakób: I will surely gather the remnant of Israél: I will put them together as the sheep of Bozráh, even as the flock in the middes of their fold: the cities shalbe ful of brute of the men.
13.The breaker up shal come up before them: they shal break out, and pass by the gate, and go out by it, and their King shal go before them, and the Lord shalbe upon their heads.

Notes

1-^.
Ebr., is to power.
1-a.
Assoon as they rise, they execute their wicked devises of the night, and according to their power hurt others.
4-b.
Thus the Jews lament and say that there is no hope of restitution seeing their possessions are divided among the enemies.
5-c.
You shall have no more lands to divide, as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee.
6-d.
Thus the people warn the Prophets that they speak to them no more: for they can not aide their threatenings.
6-e.
God says, that they shall not prophesy, nor receive no more of their rebukes nor tantes.
7-f.
Are these your works according to his Law?
7-g.
Do not the godly find my words comfortable?
8-h.
That is, afore time.
8-i.
The poor can have no commodity by them, but they spoil them, as though they were enemies.
9-k.
That is, their substance, and living, which is God’s blessing, and as it were, part of his glory.
10-l.
Jerusalem shall not be your safeguard: but the cause of your destruction.
11-m.
That is, show himself to be a Prophet.
11-n.
He shows what Prophets they delight in: that is, in flatterers, which tell them pleasant tales, and speak of their commodities.
12-o.
To destroy you.
13-p.
The enemy shall break their gates and walls and lead them into Caldea.
13-q.
To drive them forward, and to help their enemies.