Micah 2
13 verses
In this chapter, Micah pronounces woe upon those who devise wickedness in their beds and execute it when morning comes—wealthy landowners who covet fields and strip vulnerable families of their ancestral inheritances. The prophet attacks the systematic oppression that transforms Judah's social fabric, exposing how power and greed have corrupted the covenant community. Micah declares that the Lord will measure out their iniquity with the same rope and plumb line they have used to measure others' downfall, a principle of divine retribution that echoes throughout Scripture. False prophets who scratch itching ears with promises of peace and wine are unmasked as hirelings who serve their own appetites rather than the Lord's truth. Despite the darkness of these condemnations, the chapter concludes with a glimpse of hope: a remnant will be gathered and led out, like sheep breaking through an enclosure, signaling the Lord's intention to preserve a covenant people. This chapter emphasizes that injustice provokes divine response and that the Lord sides with the oppressed and dispossessed. In the arc of redemptive history, such judgment-laden oracles prepare the exile community for restoration, as judgment itself becomes the means of purification.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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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.
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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.
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The early church would have heard this very differently than we do today. God is faithful in every circumstance.. The pr...
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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.
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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.
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I love how this passage doesn't shy away from the difficulty of obedience. God is faithful in every circumstance.. God i...
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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
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Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
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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?
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This connects directly to the promise made to Abraham. Faith isn't the absence of doubt — it's choosing to believe despi...
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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.
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The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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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.
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God is faithful in every circumstance.. I notice the repetition here is deliberate — the author wants us to feel the emp...
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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.
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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.
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