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    "language": "en",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 2
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    "n": 2,
    "bookSlug": "micah",
    "bookCode": "MIC",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "MIC-2:1",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.1",
        "text": "Woe to those who devise iniquity\nand work evil on their beds!\nWhen the morning is light, they practice it,\nbecause it is in the power of their hand."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "MIC-2:2",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.2",
        "text": "They covet fields, and seize them;\nand houses, and take them away:\nand they oppress a man and his house,\neven a man and his heritage."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "MIC-2:3",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.3",
        "text": "Therefore Yahweh says:\n“Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster,\nfrom which you will not remove your necks,\nneither will you walk haughtily;\nfor it is an evil time."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "MIC-2:4",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.4",
        "text": "In that day they will take up a parable against you,\nand lament with a doleful lamentation, saying,\n‘We are utterly ruined!\nMy people’s possession is divided up.\nIndeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "MIC-2:5",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.5",
        "text": "Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "MIC-2:6",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.6",
        "text": "“Don’t prophesy!”\nThey prophesy.\n“Don’t prophesy about these things.\nDisgrace won’t overtake us.”"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "MIC-2:7",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.7",
        "text": "Shall it be said, O house of Jacob:\n“Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry?\nAre these his doings?\nDon’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "MIC-2:8",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.8",
        "text": "But lately my people have risen up as an enemy.\nYou strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "MIC-2:9",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.9",
        "text": "You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses;\nfrom their young children you take away my blessing forever."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "MIC-2:10",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.10",
        "text": "Arise, and depart!\nFor this is not your resting place,\nbecause of uncleanness that destroys,\neven with a grievous destruction."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "MIC-2:11",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.11",
        "text": "If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies:\n“I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink”;\nhe would be the prophet of this people."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "MIC-2:12",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.12",
        "text": "I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you;\nI will surely gather the remnant of Israel;\nI will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,\nas a flock in the middle of their pasture;\nthey will swarm with people."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "MIC-2:13",
        "verseRef": "MIC.2.13",
        "text": "He who breaks open the way goes up before them.\nThey break through the gate, and go out.\nAnd their king passes on before them,\nwith Yahweh at their head."
      }
    ]
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