MICAH Chapter 2 (GNB)
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2:1
How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning
comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.
2:2
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them.
No one's family or property is safe.
2:3
And so the LORD says, "I am planning to bring disaster on you, and you
will not be able to escape it. You are going to find yourselves in trouble, and
then you will not walk so proudly any more.
2:4
When that time comes, people will use the story about you as an example of
disaster, and they will sing this song of despair about your experience: We are
completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land away And
given it to those who took us captive."
2:5
So then, when the time comes for the land to be given back to the LORD's
people, there will be no share for any of you.
2:6
The people preach at me and say, "Don't preach at us. Don't preach about
all that. God is not going to disgrace us.
2:7
Do you think the people of Israel are under a curse? Has the LORD lost his
patience? Would he really do such things? Doesn't he speak kindly to those who
do right?"
2:8
The LORD replies, "You attack my people like enemies. Men return from
battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the
coats off their backs.
2:9
You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have
robbed their children of my blessings forever.
2:10
Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this
place to destruction.
2:11
"These people want the kind of prophet who goes around full of lies and
deceit and says, 'I prophesy that wine and liquor will flow for you.'
2:12
"But I will gather you together, all you people of Israel that are left. I
will bring you together like sheep returning to the fold. Like a pasture full
of sheep, your land will once again be filled with many people."
2:13
God will open the way for them and lead them out of exile. They will break out
of the city gates and go free. Their king, the LORD himself, will lead them
out.
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