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“Therefore this is what the Lord says,
‘I’m crafting evil against this family,
    from which you can’t escape.[a]
You won’t strut around arrogantly,
    because the times are evil.’
“When this happens,[b] someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully,
    ‘We are completely ruined!
        He has given my people’s heritage to others.[c]
    How he has removed it from me,
        dividing up our fields!’
“This is why there will not be left even a single person
    to settle boundary disputes[d] in the Lord’s community.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:3 Lit. can’t remove your necks
  2. Micah 2:4 Lit. In that day
  3. Micah 2:4 The Heb. lacks to others
  4. Micah 2:5 Lit. to stretch out a measuring line