(DRB) Micah 2 : 1 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 2 And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 4 In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
(DRB) Micah 2 : 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 6 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 7 The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?
(DRB) Micah 2 : 8 But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 9 You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 10 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 11 Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 12 I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.
(DRB) Micah 2 : 13 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.