Micah 2

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¹Woe to those who devise wrongdoing, Who practice evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, Because it is in the power of their hands. ✦ ²They covet fields, so they seize them; And houses, so they take them. They exploit a man and his house, A person and his inheritance. ✦ ³Therefore this is what the Lord says: “Behold, I am planning against this family a catastrophe From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. ✦ ⁴“On that day they will take up against you a song of mocking And utter a song of mourning and say, ‘We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the share of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.’ ✦ ⁵“Therefore you will have no one applying a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord. ✦ ⁶¶‘Do not prophesy,’ so they prophesy. But if they do not prophesy about these things, Insults will not be turned back. ✦ ⁷“Is it being said, house of Jacob: ‘Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient? Are these His works?’ Do My words not do good For the one walking rightly? ✦ ⁸“Recently My people have arisen as an enemy— You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war. ✦ ⁹“You evict the women of My people, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever. ✦ ¹⁰“Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction. ✦ ¹¹“If someone walking after wind and falsehood Had lied and said, ‘I will prophesy to you about wine and liquor,’ He would become a prophet to this people. ✦ ¹²¶“I will certainly assemble all of you, Jacob, I will certainly 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 people. ✦ ¹³“The one who breaks through goes up before them; They break through, pass through the gate, and go out by it. So their king passes on before them, And the Lord at their head.” ✦

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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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