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Micah

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1 Woe to them that de­vise in­iq­ui­ty, and work evil upon their beds! when the morn­ing is light, they prac­tise it, be­cause it is in the pow­er of their hand. 2 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. 3 There­fore thus saith the LORD; Be­hold, against this fam­i­ly do I de­vise an evil, from which ye shall not re­move your necks; nei­ther shall ye go haugh­ti­ly: for this time is evil. 4 In that day shall one take up a para­ble against you, and lament with a dole­ful lamen­ta­tion, and say, We be ut­ter­ly spoiled: he hath changed the por­tion of my peo­ple: how hath he re­moved it from me! turn­ing away he hath di­vid­ed our fields. 5 There­fore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the con­gre­ga­tion of the LORD. 6 Proph­esy ye not, say they to them that proph­esy: they shall not proph­esy to them, that they shall not take shame. 7 O thou that art named the 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? 8 Even of late my peo­ple is risen up as an en­e­my: ye pull off the robe with the gar­ment from them that pass by se­cure­ly as men averse from war. 9 The wom­en of my peo­ple have ye cast out from their pleas­ant hous­es; from their chil­dren have ye tak­en away my glo­ry for ev­er. 10 Arise ye, and de­part; for this is not your rest: be­cause it is pol­lut­ed, it shall de­stroy you, even with a sore de­struc­tion. 11 If a man walk­ing in the spir­it and false­hood do lie, saying, I will proph­esy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this peo­ple. 12 I will sure­ly as­sem­ble, O Ja­cob, all of thee; I will sure­ly gath­er the rem­nant of Is­rael; I will put them to­geth­er as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by rea­son of the mul­ti­tude of men. 13 The break­er is come up be­fore them: they have bro­ken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass be­fore them, and the LORD on the head of them.