Micah 2

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¹Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. ✦ ²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ✦ ³Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil. ✦ ⁴In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. ✦ ⁵Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD. ✦ ⁶Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. ✦ ⁷O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? ✦ ⁸Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. ✦ ⁹The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. ✦ ¹⁰Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. ✦ ¹¹If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. ✦ ¹²I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. ✦ ¹³The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. ✦

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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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