Micah 2 (NET)

Micah 2:1¹Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 36:4Isa 32:7Ps 7:14-16Hos 7:6-7Nah 1:11Prov 6:12-19Prov 4:16Rom 1:30Jer 18:18Prov 3:27

Micah 2:2²They confiscate the fields they desire and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes and deprive people of the land they have inherited.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:8Amos 8:4Jer 22:17Ezek 18:121 Kgs 21:2-191 Sam 12:3-41 Tim 6:102 Kgs 9:26Exod 20:17Exod 22:21-24

Micah 2:3³Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:13Isa 2:11-12Jer 8:3Jer 18:11Amos 9:1-4Isa 28:14-18Jas 2:13Lam 2:17Lam 5:5Amos 2:14-3:2

Micah 2:4⁴In that day people will sing this taunt song to you— they will mock you with this lament: ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:6Deut 28:29Isa 24:3Isa 6:11Jer 9:10Jer 9:17-21Mic 1:15Num 23:72 Chr 35:252 Chr 36:20-21

Micah 2:5⁵Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord ’s community.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:8Josh 18:4Josh 18:10Deut 23:2Deut 23:8Hos 9:3Neh 7:61Ps 16:6

Micah 2:6⁶“Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,” they say excitedly. “These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 2:12Isa 30:10Acts 5:40Ezek 3:261 Thess 2:15-16Acts 4:17Acts 5:28Acts 7:51Amos 7:13Amos 8:11-13

Micah 2:7⁷Does the family of Jacob say, “The Lord ’s patience can’t be exhausted— he would never do such things”? To be sure, my commands bring a reward for those who obey them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 84:11Jer 15:16Ps 15:2Hos 14:9Isa 50:2Prov 10:29Prov 10:9Prov 28:18Ps 119:92-93Ps 119:99-103

Micah 2:8⁸but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 20:19Ps 120:6-72 Chr 28:5-8Isa 9:21Ps 55:20

Micah 2:9⁹You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 39:21Hab 2:14Luke 20:471 Sam 26:192 Cor 3:182 Cor 4:6Jer 10:20Joel 3:6Mark 12:40Matt 23:13

Micah 2:10¹⁰But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure; sin will thoroughly destroy it!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:9Ps 106:382 Kgs 17:6Heb 4:1-91 Kgs 9:72 Chr 7:202 Kgs 15:29Deut 30:18Ezek 36:12-14Jer 9:19

Micah 2:11¹¹If a lying windbag should come and say, ‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ he would be just the right preacher for these people!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 5:312 Cor 11:13-15Isa 30:10-11Jer 23:171 John 4:11 Kgs 22:62 Chr 18:19-222 Thess 2:8-11Jer 14:14Jer 23:14

Micah 2:12¹²“I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 4:6-7Ezek 37:21Hos 1:11Jer 31:7-10Mic 5:7Ezek 36:37Isa 11:11Jer 23:3Mic 7:18Zech 10:6-8

Micah 2:13¹³The one who can break through barriers will lead them out; they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave. Their king will advance before them; the Lord himself will lead them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 52:12Isa 45:1-2Zech 9:14-15Heb 2:14-15John 10:27-30Rev 7:17Heb 6:20Rev 17:14Zech 10:12Dan 2:44