Daily Bible CEV October 23 Verses

Punishment for Those Who Abuse Their Power

Micah 2 Doomed! You're doomed!

At night you lie in bed, making evil plans.

And when morning comes, you do what you've planned

because you have the power.

²You grab any field or house that you want;

you cheat families out of homes and land.

³But here is what the LORD says:

"I am planning trouble for you.

Your necks will be caught in a noose,

and you will be disgraced in this time of disaster."

⁴When that happens, this sorrowful song

will be sung about you:

"Ruined! Completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land

and given it to traitors."

⁵And so you will never again own property

among the LORD's people.

⁶"Enough of your preaching!" That's what you tell me.

"We won't be disgraced, so stop preaching!"

⁷Descendants of Jacob, is it right for you to claim

that the LORD did what he did because he was angry?

Doesn't he always bless those who do right?

⁸My people, you have even stolen clothes right off the backs

of your unsuspecting soldiers returning home from battle.

⁹You take over lovely homes that belong to the women

of my nation.

Then you cheat their children out of the inheritance

that comes from the LORD.

¹⁰Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here.

You're not fit to belong to the LORD's people,

and you will be destroyed.

¹¹The only prophet you want is a liar who will say,

"Drink and get drunk!"

A Promise of Hope

¹²I, the LORD, promise to bring together

the people of Israel who have survived.

I will gather them, just as a shepherd brings sheep together,

and there will be many.

¹³I will break down the gate and lead them out--

then I will be their king.

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