Book 20 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - MICAH - Chapter 002
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Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their
beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, because it is in the power of
their hand
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And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take
them away; thus they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage
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Therefore thus saith HaShem: Behold, against this family do
I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye
walk upright; for it shall be an evil time
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In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and
lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth
the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me! Instead of restoring
our fields, he divideth them.
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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by
lot in the congregation of HaShem
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'Preach ye not', they preach; 'They shall not preach of
these things, that they shall not take shame.
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Do I change, O house of Jacob? Is the spirit of HaShem
straitened? Are these His doings? Do not My words do good to him that walketh
uprightly
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But of late My people is risen up as an enemy; with the
garment ye strip also the mantle from them that pass by securely, so that they
are as men returning from war
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The women of My people ye cast out from their pleasant
houses; from their young children ye take away My glory for ever
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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place;
because of the uncleanness thereof, it shall destroy you, even with a sore
destruction
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If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie: 'I will
preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink'; he shall even be the preacher of
this people
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I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will
surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will render them all as sheep in a fold;
as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason
of the multitude of men
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The breaker is gone up before them; they have broken forth
and passed on, by the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed
on before them, and HaShem at the head of them
Book 20 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - MICAH - Chapter 002
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