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Micah 2:1
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Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work out
evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of
their hands. |
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Micah 2:2
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They covet fields and then seize them, And houses,
and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. |
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Micah 2:3
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Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am
planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks;
And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. |
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Micah 2:4
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"On that day they will take up against you a
taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely destroyed! He
exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate
He apportions our fields.' |
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Micah 2:5
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"Therefore you will have no one stretching a
measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD. |
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Micah 2:6
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'Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if
they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back. |
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Micah 2:7
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"Is it being said, O house of Jacob: 'Is the
Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words do good To
the one walking uprightly? |
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Micah 2:8
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"Recently My people have arisen as an enemy--
You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned
from war. |
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Micah 2:9
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"The women of My people you evict, Each one
from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever. |
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Micah 2:10
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"Arise and go, For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
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Micah 2:11
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"If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had
told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,' He would
be spokesman to this people. |
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Micah 2:12
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"I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I
will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep
in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with
men. |
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Micah 2:13
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"The breaker goes up before them; They break
out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them,
And the LORD at their head." |
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