Micah Chapter 2
Judgment Against Wealthy Oppressors
1 Misfortune awaits those who devise sin,
Who lie awake plotting schemes in bed!
In the morning they do them
because they can.
2 They covet fields and seize them;
they desire horses and take them.
They rob people
and confiscate the property they’ve inherited.
3 So Yahveh says,
“I’m devising a catastrophe for this family;
you won’t get your necks out of the noose.
You won’t keep carrying on arrogantly;
it’ll be a terrible time for you.
4 Your enemies will taunt you with a proverb
and wail a bitter dirge in mockery,
‘We’re ruined!
God is reapportioning our things.
He’s taking them away from us
and giving our fields to apostates!’
5 So you won’t have anyone stretching out a surveying line
for you by lot in Yahveh’s assembly.
Mic 2:1-5
6 “‘Don’t preach about such things,’ they say;
‘disgrace won’t catch up with us.’
7 Are you really saying such a thing, House of Jacob?
Isn’t Yahveh’s Spirit patient?
Does he do such things?
Don’t his words do good
for those who do right?
8 My people rise up against my people;
they strip robes off the peaceful,
off of people that go along innocently
with no thought of fighting.
9 They evict my people’s women from their pleasant homes
and forever strip away from their children
the splendor I would give them.
10 Get up and get out of here!
this is no longer a place to rest;
there’s sinfulness here
that brings painful destruction.
11 If a liar full of hot air tells you
he’ll preach about the fun of wine and alcohol,
he’ll certainly get a hearing from you!
Mic 2:6-11
12 “I’ll assemble you, Jacob, remnant of Israel,
and put you together like sheep in a fold;
like a flock in its pasture,
you’ll be a noisy crowd in your land.
13 The One that opens the gate will lead you out;
you’ll break out of exile through it.
Your King will go out ahead of you,
Yahveh at the lead.”
Mic 2:12-13