English Bible Presentation Sharing - Micah Book, chapter 2, verse 1 in Hcsb Version

Micah 2 : 1 (HCSB)

Woe to those who dream up wickedness and prepare evil *plans on their beds! At morning light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2 : 2 (HCSB)

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

Micah 2 : 3 (HCSB)

Therefore, the LORD says: I am now planning a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time.

Micah 2 : 4 (HCSB)

In that day one will take up a taunt against you, and lament mournfully, saying: We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How He removes *it from me! He allots our fields to traitors.

Micah 2 : 5 (HCSB)

Therefore, there will be no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by casting lots.

Micah 2 : 6 (HCSB)

"Stop your preaching," they preach. "They should not preach these things; shame will not overtake us."

Micah 2 : 7 (HCSB)

House of Jacob, should it be asked: "Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?" Don't My words bring good to the one who walks uprightly?

Micah 2 : 8 (HCSB)

But recently My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war.

Micah 2 : 9 (HCSB)

You force the women of My people out of their comfortable homes, and you take My blessing from their children forever.

Micah 2 : 10 (HCSB)

Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest, because defilement brings destruction-- a grievous destruction!

Micah 2 : 11 (HCSB)

If a man of spirit comes and invents lies: "I will preach to you about wine and beer," he would be just the preacher for this people!

Micah 2 : 12 (HCSB)

I will indeed gather all of you, Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the middle of its fold. It will be noisy with people.

Micah 2 : 13 (HCSB)

One who breaks open *the way will advance before them; they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.