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Micah 2

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¹ ⓐ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evilⓑ on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

² They covet fields andⓒ seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

³ Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, againstⓓ this family I am devising disaster,[1] from which you cannot remove your necks, and youⓔ shall not walk haughtily, ⓕfor it will be a time of disaster.

⁴ In that dayⓖ they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; ⓗhe changes the portion of my people; ⓘhow he removes it from me! ⓙTo an apostate he allots our fields.”

⁵ Therefore you will have noneⓚ to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

⁶ ⓛ “Do not preach” — thus they preach — ⓜ“one should not preach of such things; ⓝdisgrace will not overtake us.”

⁷ Should this be said, O house of Jacob? ⓞHas the LORD grown impatient?[2] Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

⁸ But latelyⓟ my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.[3]

⁹ The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.

¹⁰ ⓠ Arise and go, for this is noⓡ place to rest, because ofⓢ uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

¹¹ If a man should go about andⓣ utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to youⓤ of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!

¹² I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; ⓥI will gatherⓦ the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, ⓧlike a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

¹³ ⓨ He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, ⓩgoing out by it. Their king passes on before them, ⓐthe LORD at their head.

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1	ⓐ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evilⓑ on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2	They covet fields andⓒ seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3	Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, againstⓓ this family I am devising disaster,[1] from which you cannot remove your necks, and youⓔ shall not walk haughtily, ⓕfor it will be a time of disaster.
4	In that dayⓖ they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; ⓗhe changes the portion of my people; ⓘhow he removes it from me! ⓙTo an apostate he allots our fields.”
5	Therefore you will have noneⓚ to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
6	ⓛ “Do not preach” — thus they preach — ⓜ“one should not preach of such things; ⓝdisgrace will not overtake us.”
7	Should this be said, O house of Jacob? ⓞHas the LORD grown impatient?[2] Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
8	But latelyⓟ my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.[3]
9	The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
10	ⓠ Arise and go, for this is noⓡ place to rest, because ofⓢ uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
11	If a man should go about andⓣ utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to youⓤ of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!
12	I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; ⓥI will gatherⓦ the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, ⓧlike a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
13	ⓨ He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, ⓩgoing out by it. Their king passes on before them, ⓐthe LORD at their head.

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