{"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/dbt/micah/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:36:13.570Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise 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; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to these, the ignominy will not depart."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"O thou that art named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall be the prophet of this people."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"One that breaketh through is gone up before them: they have broken forth, and have passed on to the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king passeth on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them."}],"citation":{"inline":"Micah 2 (DBT)","markdown":"[Micah 2](https://primebible.com/dbt/micah/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/micah/2 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}