Micah 2:1-5

Woe to Oppressors

1Woe to those who devise wrongdoing,

Who practice evil on their beds!

When morning comes, they do it,

Because it is in the power of their hands.

2They covet fields, so they seize them;

And houses, so they take them.

They exploit a man and his house,

A person and his inheritance.

³Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“Behold, I am planning against this family a catastrophe

From which you cannot remove your necks;

And you will not walk haughtily,

For it will be an evil time.

4“On that day they will take up against you a song of mocking

And utter a song of mourning and say,

‘We are completely destroyed!

He exchanges the share of my people;

How He removes it from me!

To the apostate He apportions our fields.’

5“Therefore you will have no one applying a measuring line

For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.