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          DASV: Micah 2

1 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
          who plot evil on their beds.
     When the morning dawns, they do it,
          because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields, then seize them,
          and houses, and take them.
      They cheat a person out of his house,
          even taking a person's family inheritance.

3 Therefore this is what the LORD says:
     "Look, I am planning a disaster against this family,
           from which you will not be able to remove your necks.
     You will no longer walk in arrogance,
           for it will be a time of trouble.
4 In that day they will take up a taunt against you,
          and lament with a mournful lamentation, saying,
      'We are utterly ruined!
     He changes the portion of my people.
           How does he remove it from me!
          He allots our fields to traitors.'"
5 Therefore you will have no one to mark out the boundaries by lot
     in the assembly of the LORD.

6 "Do not preach," they preach.
     "They should not prophesy about such things;
           disgrace will not overtake us."
7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob,
     "Is the Spirit of the LORD exhausted?
           Are these his doings?"

      "Do not my words benefit him who walks uprightly?
8 But recently my people rise up like an enemy;
     strip the robe off those who peacefully pass by,
           like those returning from war.
9 You evict the women of my people from their pleasant houses;
     from their young children you take away my glory forever.
10 Get up, and leave;
     for this is not your resting place,
           because of uncleanness that destroys,
     with a terrible destruction.
11 If a person were walking around uttering blustery lies, saying,
     'I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,'
      he will be the perfect prophet for this people.

12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob;
     I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
      I will put them together as the sheep
          in the midst of a pasture;
          it will be noisy because there will be so many people.
13 The leader who breaks out will go up before them,
     they will break out and pass on through the gate,
           and leave.
      Their king will pass on before them,
          and the LORD will be at their head."
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