Micah 2 NLT NIV Parallel

◄ Micah 2 ►

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1What sorrow awaits you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry them out, simply because you have the power to do so.

1Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

2When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family’s inheritance.

2They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

3But this is what the LORD says: “I will reward your evil with evil; you won’t be able to pull your neck out of the noose. You will no longer walk around proudly, for it will be a terrible time.”

3Therefore, the LORD says: "I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

4In that day your enemies will make fun of you by singing this song of despair about you: “We are finished, completely ruined! God has confiscated our land, taking it from us. He has given our fields to those who betrayed us. ”

4In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.'"

5Others will set your boundaries then, and the LORD’s people will have no say in how the land is divided. True and False Prophets

5Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

6“Don’t say such things,” the people respond. “Don’t prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!”

6"Do not prophesy," their prophets say. "Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us."

7Should you talk that way, O family of Israel? Will the LORD’s Spirit have patience with such behavior? If you would do what is right, you would find my words comforting.

7You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, "Does the LORD become impatient? Does he do such things?" "Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?

8Yet to this very hour my people rise against me like an enemy! You steal the shirts right off the backs of those who trusted you, making them as ragged as men returning from battle.

8Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle.

9You have evicted women from their pleasant homes and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.

9You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.

10Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.

10Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

11Suppose a prophet full of lies would say to you, “I’ll preach to you the joys of wine and alcohol!” That’s just the kind of prophet you would like! Hope for Restoration

11If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,' that would be just the prophet for this people!

12“Someday, O Israel, I will gather you; I will gather the remnant who are left. I will bring you together again like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture. Yes, your land will again be filled with noisy crowds!

12"I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.

13Your leader will break out and lead you out of exile, out through the gates of the enemy cities, back to your own land. Your king will lead you; the LORD himself will guide you.”

13The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD at their head."

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