{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T21:24:18.390Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Micah","bookSlug":"micah","chapter":2,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":7,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily: for this time is evil."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Prophesy you not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory for ever."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the middle of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them."}],"citation":{"inline":"Micah 2 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Micah 2](https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/2 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}