AB - Micah - 2

2:1  They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

2:2  And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

2:3  Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which you shall not lift up your necks, neither shall you walk upright speedily: for the time is evil.

2:4  In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.

2:5  Therefore you will have no one to cast a line for the lot.

2:6  Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for He shall not remove the reproaches,

2:7  who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not the Lord's words right with him? And have they not proceeded correctly?

2:8  Even before time My people withstood him as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.

2:9  The leaders of My people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw near to the everlasting mountains.

2:10  Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest because of uncleanness: you have been utterly destroyed;

2:11  you have fled, no one pursues you: your spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on you for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,

2:12  Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:

2:13  they have broken through, and passed the gate, and gone out by it, and their king has gone out before them, and the Lord shall lead them.