Woe to Oppressors
Woe to those who devise iniquity Psa 36:4Isa 32:7Psa 7:14-16Hos 7:6-7Nam 1:11Pro 6:12-19Pro 4:16Rom 1:30
and plot evil on their beds!
At morning’s light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.
They covet fields and seize them; Isa 5:8Amo 8:4Jer 22:17Ezk 18:121Ki 21:2-191Sa 12:3-41Ti 6:102Ki 9:26
they take away houses.
They deprive a man of his home,
a fellow man of his inheritance.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: Amo 5:13Isa 2:11-12Jer 8:3Jer 18:11Amo 9:1-4Isa 28:14-18Jas 2:13Lam 2:17
“I am planning against this nation a disaster
from which you cannot free your necks.
Then you will not walk so proudly,
for it will be a time of calamity.
In that day they will take up a proverb against you Hab 2:6Deu 28:29Isa 24:3Isa 6:11Jer 9:10Jer 9:17-21Mic 1:15Num 23:7
and taunt you with this bitter lamentation:
‘We are utterly ruined!
He has changed the portion of my people.
How He has removed it from me!
He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD Deu 32:8Jos 18:4Jos 18:10Deu 23:2Deu 23:8Hos 9:3Neh 7:61Psa 16:6
to divide the land by lot.
Reproof of False Prophets
(Ezekiel 13:1–16)
“Do not preach,” they preach. Amo 2:12Isa 30:10Act 5:40Ezk 3:261Th 2:15-16Act 4:17Act 5:28Act 7:51
“Do not preach these things;
disgrace will not overtake us.”
Should it be said, O house of Jacob, Psa 84:11Jer 15:16Psa 15:2Hos 14:9Isa 50:2Pro 10:29Pro 10:9Pro 28:18
“Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient?
Are these the things He does?”
Do not My words bring good
to him who walks uprightly?
But of late My people have risen up 2Sa 20:19Psa 120:6-72Ch 28:5-8Isa 9:21Psa 55:20
like an enemy:
You strip off the splendid robe
from unsuspecting passersby
like men returning from battle.
You drive the women of My people Ezk 39:21Hab 2:14Luk 20:471Sa 26:192Co 3:182Co 4:6Jer 10:20Jol 3:6
from their pleasant homes.
You take away My blessing
from their children forever.
Arise and depart, Deu 12:9Psa 106:382Ki 17:6Heb 4:1-91Ki 9:72Ch 7:202Ki 15:29Deu 30:18
for this is not your place of rest,
because its defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!
If a man of wind were to come Jer 5:312Co 11:13-15Isa 30:10-11Jer 23:171Jn 4:11Ki 22:62Ch 18:19-222Th 2:8-11
and say falsely,
“I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” 1
he would be just the preacher for this people!
The Remnant of Israel
(Micah 5:7–15)
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; Mic 4:6-7Ezk 37:21Hos 1:11Jer 31:7-10Mic 5:7Ezk 36:37Isa 11:11Jer 23:3
I will collect the remnant of Israel.
I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,
like a flock in the midst of its pasture—
a noisy throng.
One who breaks open the way Isa 52:12Isa 45:1-2Zec 9:14-15Heb 2:14-15Jhn 10:27-30Rev 7:17Heb 6:20Rev 17:14
will go up before them;
they will break through the gate,
and go out by it.
Their King will pass through before them,
the LORD as their leader.