Micah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Micah 2 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2 And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
2 They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.
3 Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
4 In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
5 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
6 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.
6 “Don’t prophesy!”—they prophesy— “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
7 The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?
7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
8 But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.
8 But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
9 You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.
9 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
10 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.
10 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
11 Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.
11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would be the prophet of this people.
12 I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.
12 I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture. They will swarm with people.
13 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.
13 He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. Their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 36:4; Isaiah 32:7; Psalm 7:14–16; Hosea 7:6–7; Proverbs 6:12–19
- 2 Isaiah 5:8; Jeremiah 22:17; Amos 8:4; Ezekiel 18:12; Matthew 23:13
- 3 Jeremiah 8:3; Amos 5:13; Isaiah 2:11–12; Jeremiah 18:11; Amos 9:1–4
- 4 Habakkuk 2:6; Jeremiah 9:17–21; Micah 1:15; Jeremiah 9:10; Isaiah 24:3
- 5 Joshua 18:4; Deuteronomy 32:8; Joshua 18:10; Deuteronomy 23:2; Psalm 16:6
- 6 Amos 2:12; Isaiah 30:10; Acts 5:40; Ezekiel 3:26; Psalm 74:9
- 7 Psalm 84:11; Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 15:2; Zechariah 4:6; Proverbs 10:9
- 8 2 Samuel 20:19; Psalm 120:6–7; 2 Chronicles 28:5–8; Psalm 55:20; Isaiah 9:21
- 9 Ezekiel 39:21; Habakkuk 2:14; Luke 20:47; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Psalm 72:19
- 10 Deuteronomy 12:9; Psalm 106:38; 2 Kings 17:6; Hebrews 4:1–9; 1 Kings 9:7
- 11 Jeremiah 5:31; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Isaiah 30:10–11; Jeremiah 23:17; Jeremiah 28:15
- 12 Micah 4:6–7; Micah 5:7; Hosea 1:11; Jeremiah 31:7–10; Ezekiel 37:21
- 13 Isaiah 52:12; Isaiah 45:1–2; Zechariah 9:14–15; Revelation 7:17; John 10:27–30
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… the people for their rebellion and disobedience; "you do always," he says, "resist the Holy Ghost;" and again Isaiah,--"They vexed His Holy Spirit, therefore He was turned to be their enemy;" and in another passage, "the house of Jacob angered the Spirit of the Lord." Are not these passages indicative of authoritative power?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)