Micah
Chapters 2:2-8
Revised Version 1885
2And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and 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 walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
6Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
7Shall it be said, O 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?
8But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.