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MICAH
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- Neither shall ye go haughtily:
- For this time is evil.
- In that day shall one take up a parable against you,
- And lament with a doleful lamentation,
- And say, We be utterly spoiled:
- He hath changed the portion of my people:
- How hath he removed it from me!
- Turning away he hath divided our fields.
- Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot
- In the congregation of the Lord.
- Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy:
- They shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
- O thou that art named the house of Jacob,
- Is the spirit of the Lord straitened?
- Are these his doings?
- Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
- Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy:
- Ye pull off the robe with the garment
- From them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
- The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses;
- From their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
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