Micah 2:6 {5}
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

Contemporary English Version
"Enough of your preaching!" That's what you tell me. "We won't be disgraced, so stop preaching!"

New American Bible
“Do not preach,” they preach, “no one should preach of these things! Shame will not overtake us.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Prophesy ye, etc.

Isaiah 30:10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.

Jeremiah 26:8,9,20-23 And when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to death. . . .

Ezekiel 20:46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.

Ezekiel 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:

Amos 2:12 And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

Amos 7:13 And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

Acts 4:17 But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.

Acts 5:28,40 Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us. . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

they shall not prophesy.

Psalm 74:9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Ezekiel 3:26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.

Amos 8:11-13 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day. . . .

that they.

Jeremiah 6:14,15 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace. . . .

Jeremiah 8:11,12 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace. . . .

Context
The False Prophets
6Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.7Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.…
Cross References
Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.

Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.

Amos 2:12
And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

Amos 7:16
And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

Micah 3:6
Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.

Micah 6:16
For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Micah 2:5
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