WOE to those who devise iniquity, and work out evil on their beds! At morning light they paractice 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 his house, a man and its 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.
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 doing? 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.
12 "I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them togather 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. " MICAH 2