{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Micah",
 "chapter": 2,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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?"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them."
  }
 ],
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}