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Woe to the Oppressors
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|Miquéias 2:1|a Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil b on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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|Miquéias 2:2|They covet fields and c seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
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|Miquéias 2:3|Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against d this family I am devising disaster, 1 from which you cannot remove your necks, and you e shall not walk haughtily, f for it will be a time of disaster.
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|Miquéias 2:4|In that day g they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; h he changes the portion of my people; i how he removes it from me! j To an apostate he allots our fields.”
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|Miquéias 2:5|Therefore you will have none k to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
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|Miquéias 2:6|l “Do not preach” — thus they preach — m “one should not preach of such things; n disgrace will not overtake us.”
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|Miquéias 2:7|Should this be said, O house of Jacob? o Has the LORD grown impatient? 2 Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
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|Miquéias 2:8|But lately p my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war. 3
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|Miquéias 2:9|The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
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|Miquéias 2:10|q Arise and go, for this is no r place to rest, because of s uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
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