Micah 2:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

New Living Translation
When 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.

English Standard Version
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Berean Study Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

New American Standard Bible
They covet fields, so they seize them; And houses, so they take them. They exploit a man and his house, A person and his inheritance.

NASB 1995
They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

NASB 1977
They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

Amplified Bible
They covet fields and seize them, And houses, and take them away. They oppress and rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

Christian Standard Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.

Contemporary English Version
You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.

Good News Translation
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They desire [other people's] fields, so they seize them. They desire [people's] houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and his family, a man and his inheritance.

International Standard Version
They covet fields and seize them; they covet houses, and grab them, too. They harass the valiant man, along with his household, an individual and his estate.

NET Bible
They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

New King James Version
They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

King James 2000 Bible
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

New Heart English Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.

American King James Version
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

American Standard Version
And 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.

A Faithful Version
And they covet and seize fields, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

Darby Bible Translation
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

English Revised Version
And 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
When they covet to haue londe, they take it by violence, they robbe men off their houses. Thus they oppresse a ma for his house, & euery man for his heretage.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And they have desired fields, "" And they have taken violently, "" And houses, and they have taken away, "" And have oppressed a man and his house, "" Even a man and his inheritance.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

Smith's Literal Translation
And they desired fields, and they took by force; and houses, and they took away: and they oppressed a man and his house, and a man and his inheritance.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And they have desired fields and have taken them by violence, and they have stolen houses. And they have made false accusations against a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they lust for fields and houses and they take them by force, and they oppress a man in his property and in his inheritance

Lamsa Bible
They covet fields and houses, and seize them by force; they oppress a man, taking away from him his possessions and his inheritance.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And they covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away; Thus they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.
















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