# Micah 2 (New King James Version)
Woe to Evildoers

##### Chapter 2
###### 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity,  
And work out evil on their beds!  
At morning light they practice it,  
Because it is in the power of their hand.  

###### 2 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.

###### 3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
"Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,  
From which you cannot remove your necks;  
Nor shall you walk haughtily,  
For this _is_ an evil time.  

###### 4 In that day _one_ shall take up a proverb against you,  
And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:  
'We are utterly destroyed!  
He has changed the heritage of my people;  
How He has removed _it_ from me!  
To a turncoat He has divided our fields.' "

###### 5 Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot  
In the assembly of the Lord.Lying Prophets

###### 6 "Do not prattle," _you say to those_ who prophesy.  
So they shall not prophesy to you;  
They shall not return insult for insult.  

###### 7 _You who are_ named the house of Jacob:  
"Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?  
_Are_ these His doings?  
Do not My words do good  
To him who walks uprightly?

###### 8 "Lately My people have risen up as an enemy--  
You pull off the robe with the garment  
From those who trust _you,_ as they pass by,  
Like men returned from war.  

###### 9 The women of My people you cast out  
From their pleasant houses;  
From their children  
You have taken away My glory forever.

###### 10 "Arise and depart,  
For this _is_ not _your_ rest;  
Because it is defiled, it shall destroy,  
Yes, with utter destruction.  

###### 11 If a man should walk in a false spirit  
And speak a lie, _saying,_  
'I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,'  
Even he would be the prattler of this people.Israel Restored

###### 12 "I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,  
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;  
I will put them together like sheep of the fold,  
Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;  
They shall make a loud noise because of _so many_ people.  

###### 13 The one who breaks open will come up before them;  
They will break out,  
Pass through the gate,  
And go out by it;  
Their king will pass before them,  
With the Lord at their head."