Micah 2

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¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. ✦ ²They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. ✦ ³Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. ✦ ⁴In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’” ✦ ⁵Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot. ✦ ⁶“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.” ✦ ⁷Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly? ✦ ⁸But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle. ✦ ⁹You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever. ✦ ¹⁰Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction! ✦ ¹¹If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people! ✦ ¹²I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng. ✦ ¹³One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Jer 23 ·6 Ps 119 ·4 Mic 3 ·4 Ezek 34 ·4 Hab 2 ·3 Mic 2 ·3 Amos 5 ·3 Zech 10 ·3

Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

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CommentaryEnduring Word — Micah 2David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
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