Micah · Unlocked Literal Bible
Micah 2 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plan on their beds to do evil. In the morning light they do it because they have power.
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 They desire fields and seize them; they desire houses and take them. They oppress 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 Yahweh says this, “Look, I am about to bring disaster against this clan, from which you will not remove your necks. You will not walk arrogantly, for it will be an 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 men will sing a song about you, and lament with a wailing lamentation. They will sing, 'We Israelites are completely ruined; Yahweh changes the territory of my people. How can he remove it from me? He portions out our fields to traitors!'”
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, you rich people will have no descendants to divide up the territory by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
5 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
6 “Do not prophesy,” they say. “They must not prophesy these things; reproaches must not come.”
6 “Don’t prophesy!”—they prophesy— “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
7 Should it really be said, house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these really his deeds?” Do not my words do good to anyone who walks 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 Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip the robe, the garment, from those who pass by unsuspectingly, as soldiers return from war to what they think is safety.
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 drive the women belonging to my people from their pleasant houses; you take my blessing from their young children forever.
9 You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
10 Get up and leave, for this is not a place where you can stay, because of its uncleanness; it is destroyed with complete destruction.
10 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
11 If someone comes to you in a spirit of falsehood and lies and says, “I will prophesy to you about wine and strong drink,” he would be considered to be a prophet for this people.
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 surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture. There will be a loud noise because of the multitude of people.
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 Someone who breaks open their way for them will go ahead of them. They break through the gate and go out; their king will pass on before them. Yahweh will be at their head.
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)