First light from the roof terrace of a large stone house on a rise, looking down over a patchwork of small terraced family fields and humble flat-roofed houses, under a calm, pale, empty sky.

Hear, you peoples

Micah 2

What do you want badly enough to plan for at night?

13 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1–2Hear, you peoplesSamaria falls, Judah mourns, a remnant gatheredChapter 2
3–5Hear, you leadersZion plowed; then the mountain raised and a Ruler from Bethlehem
6–7Hear the LORD’s caseWhat He requires, and who is a God like Him

Woe to Oppressors

Micah

Night in a fine stone room: a clay oil lamp burns on a deep window ledge, and beyond the open window dark terraced fields lie under the stars.

Woe to those who devise iniquity

and plot evil on their beds!

At morning’s light they accomplish it

because the power is in their hands.

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Micah

Micah

They covet fields and seize them;

they take away houses.

They deprive a man of his home,

a fellow man of his inheritance.

God

Therefore this is what the LORD says:

“I am planning against this nation a disaster

from which you cannot free your necks.

Then you will not walk so proudly,

for it will be a time of calamity.

God

Micah

Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD

to divide the land by lot.

Reflect

Not yours to take

Micah calls it sin to take what a neighbor needed to live. Is there anything you hold, time, credit or property, that belongs to someone else? Write it down, and ask God what to do with it.

Reproof of False Prophets

The preachers

“Do not preach,” they preach.

“Do not preach these things;

disgrace will not overtake us.”

Micah

Should it be said, O house of Jacob,

“Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient?

Are these the things He does?”

God

Do not My words bring good

to him who walks uprightly?

God

Late afternoon at a small courtyard house in a Judean village: a mother and two children carrying bundles walk out through the gate while a rich man's steward stands aside by the door holding a new wooden bar.

But of late My people have risen up

like an enemy:

You strip off the splendid robe

from unsuspecting passersby

like men returning from battle.

You drive the women of My people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away My blessing

from their children forever.

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God

Arise and depart,

for this is not your place of rest,

because its defilement brings destruction—

a grievous destruction!

God

If a man of wind were to come

and say falsely,

“I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”

he would be just the preacher for this people!

Question

Quick question

Micah has warned of disaster, and someone has an answer for him.

What did the preachers in verse 6 tell Micah?

The Remnant of Israel

God

God

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob;

I will collect the remnant of Israel.

I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,

like a flock in the midst of its pasture—

a noisy throng.

God

One who breaks open the way

will go up before them;

they will break through the gate,

and go out by it.

Their King will pass through before them,

the LORD as their leader.

Micah 2:13

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One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.

Micah 2:13

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