Micah 2:1

Micah 2:1

Woe to Evildoers

1 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And¹ work out evil on their beds!
At ^amorning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.

2 They ^acovet fields and take them by violence,
Also houses, and seize them.
So they oppress a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.

3 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, against this ^afamily I am devising ^bdisaster,
From which you cannot remove your necks;
Nor shall you walk haughtily,
For this is an evil time.

4 In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And ^alament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the¹ heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To¹ a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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DENUNCIATION OF THE EVILS PREVALENT: THE PEOPLE'S UNWILLINGNESS TO HEAR THE TRUTH: THEIR EXPULSION FROM THE LAND THE FITTING FRUIT OF THEIR SIN: YET JUDAH AND ISRAEL ARE HEREAFTER TO BE RESTORED. (Micah 2:1-13)

devise . . . work . . . practise—They do evil not merely on a sudden impulse, but with deliberate design. As in the former chapter sins against the first table are reproved, so in this chapter sins against the second table. A gradation: "devise" is the conception of the evil purpose; "work" (Psalms 58:2), or "fabricate," the maturing of the scheme; "practise," or "effect," the execution of it.

because it is in the power of their hand—for the phrase see Genesis 31:29; Proverbs 3:27. Might, not right, is what regulates their conduct. Where they can, they commit oppression; where they do not, it is because they cannot.

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