Micah 2:2,9
Micah 2:1-5 The Message (MSG)
Doom to those who plot evil, who go to bed dreaming up crimes! As soon as it’s morning, they’re off, full of energy, doing what they’ve planned. They covet fields and grab them, find homes and take them. They bully the neighbor and his family, see people only for what they can get out of them. GOD has had enough. He says, “I have some plans of my own: Disaster because of this interbreeding evil! Your necks are on the line. You’re not walking away from this. It’s doomsday for you. Mocking ballads will be sung of you, and you yourselves will sing the blues: ‘Our lives are ruined, our homes and lands auctioned off. They take everything, leave us nothing! All is sold to the highest bidder.’” And there’ll be no one to stand up for you, no one to speak for you before GOD and his jury. * * *
Micah 2:8-11 The Message (MSG)
“What do you mean, ‘good people’! You’re the enemy of my people! You rob unsuspecting people out for an evening stroll. You take their coats off their backs like soldiers who plunder the defenseless. You drive the women of my people out of their ample homes. You make victims of the children and leave them vulnerable to violence and vice. Get out of here, the lot of you. You can’t take it easy here! You’ve polluted this place, and now you’re polluted—ruined! If someone showed up with a good smile and glib tongue and told lies from morning to night— ‘I’ll preach sermons that will tell you how you can get anything you want from God: More money, the best wines . . . you name it’— you’d hire him on the spot as your preacher! * * *
Micah 2:2 King James Version (KJV)
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 2:9 King James Version (KJV)
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah 2:2 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
Micah 2:9 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.
Micah 2:2 New Century Version (NCV)
They want fields, so they take them; they want houses, so they take them away. They cheat people to get their houses; they rob them even of their property.
Micah 2:9 New Century Version (NCV)
You’ve forced the women of my people from their nice houses; you’ve taken my glory from their children forever.
Micah 2:2 American Standard Version (ASV)
And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 2:9 American Standard Version (ASV)
The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
Micah 2:2 New International Version (NIV)
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Micah 2:9 New International Version (NIV)
You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
Micah 2:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
Micah 2:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
The women of My people you cast out From their pleasant houses; From their children You have taken away My glory forever.
Micah 2:2 Amplified Bible (AMP)
They covet fields and seize them, And houses, and take them away. They oppress and rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. [Is 5:8; Ex 20:17; Lev 25:23ff.]
Micah 2:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“You evict the women (widows) of My people, Each one from her pleasant house; From her [young, fatherless] children you take away My splendor and blessing forever [by putting them among the pagans, away from Me].
Micah 2:2 New Living Translation (NLT)
When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family’s inheritance.
Micah 2:9 New Living Translation (NLT)
You have evicted women from their pleasant homes and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
Micah 2:2 The Passion Translation (TPT)
They covet someone’s field and seize it for themselves, and they take over his house as well. They defraud a man of his home and another man of his inheritance.
Micah 2:9 The Passion Translation (TPT)
You wrongly evict the women of my people from the very homes they love, forever depriving their children of the honor of their inheritance.