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Micah 2:1. She was thinking, and doing evil on her beds, and committing wickedness day by day. For they spent their nights, not abandoning lawlessness, but at night they plotted and destined evil in their thoughts, and during the day they added deeds to their plans. And the Prophet lists what these things are and how numerous they are. I have not yet raised my hands to God Micah 2:2. And I sat down and raked orphans, and took away houses, and plundered the husband and his house, and the husband and his inheritance. Having listed the iniquities, he predicts punishment. Micah 2:3. For this reason, the Lord says: Behold, I think evil against this generation; you will not move you from them, and you will not forgive suddenly, for there is a time of evil. I will bend your arrogant and proud necks, and with the greatness of punishment I will force you to bow to the ground; because I will give this tribe, like the others, to slavery for the iniquities mentioned above. Micah 2:4. On that day a parable will come upon you, and there will be mourning with a song, saying: disaster by suffering: From this it is not difficult to understand what was said before, for what he called above the Syrian lament, he calls here “crying with song”; and therefore it is clear that there, too, crying with song, according to a well-known fable, was called the weeping of the daughters of Syria. When disasters befall the city; then, says the Prophet, not only will those who hear about you mourn you, but, like a certain parable, they will begin to retell to others about what happened to you; and you will say to each other: Some of my people are measured by the already, and do not forbid him, the hedgehog will turn away; your village is divided by Bysha. Micah 2:5. For this reason, you will not be able to accommodate the snake in your lot Because, after they were taken into captivity, the neighbors divided the land they cultivated; then, having heard about this, I lament and shed tears, you will say to each other: the part God allocated to Israel is measured and divided by the most hostile foreigners, and no one interferes with this, no one stops their covetousness, and I am driven out of there, I do not have the plot given to me; but the fields that belong to me are divided among others. So the Prophet, having announced the sorrowful, offers an admonition containing a useful lesson: Micah 2:6–7. Do not weep with tears, let them weep for these: for he will not reject reproach when he says: the house of Jacob is the wrath of the Spirit of the Lord: is not this the essence of his undertaking? Are not his words the essence of what is good to him, and what is right for him? You must, says the Prophet, not grieve about punishment, but cry about sin, and not confess lawlessness in words, but actually show a change in your behavior; because God praises words adorned with deeds. Micah 2:8. And before, My people resisted their peace in enmity: because by acting contrary to My laws, they have deprived themselves of peace. to tear off his skin, to take away his hope and contrition. For this evil act, it is as if their own skin was torn off from them in some way; because they are deprived of My providence for them, and having lost good hope, they are given over to military contrition. Micah 2:9. The elders of My people will turn away from their houses of sweetness, evil for the sake of their undertakings and rejection of Bysh. Together with others, kings and priests, having lost the means to their former luxury, are forced to live slavishly in a foreign land, suffering punishment for their crimes. Come closer to the eternal mountains: Micah 2:10–11. Arise and go, for you cannot bear this peace of uncleanness for the sake of: you are decaying with corruption, having been persecuted by no one: Having given yourself over to lawlessness, you voluntarily chose wickedness and made yourself available to your enemies; Therefore, go to their mountains, which in the beginning God created and covered with plants, because here you are deprived of food for yourself because of sin. put the spirit of lies into your wine and drunkenness: The spirit of lies, who prophesies in false prophets, sought out false predictions for you, and thereby created intoxication in you. and it will be, from a drop of these people, Micah 2:12. We gather Jacob will gather with everyone: I will receive those who remain of Israel, and together I will bring about his return. This deception, says the Prophet, into which the demons led you through false prophets, will cause you and the ten tribes to be taken captive; for I will take everyone there, subjecting you to a general punishment. And when it comes; Like sheep in tribulation, like sheep in the midst of their bed, they will flee from man. Like sheep lying quietly, seeing a wolf suddenly approaching, they rise to their feet in great fear; So you too, when you see the invasion of enemies, will be filled with confusion and fear. Then the Prophet predicts what happened under Zedekiah, which was also predicted by the blessed Prophet Ezekiel, when God commanded him to take the vessels “captive” (Ezek. 12:3), and by certain actions to foretell the flight of that king. Micah 2:13. Rise up in front of them; cut through, and went through the gate, and came out through it. And their king went out before them, For having learned that the Chaldeans were entering the city, the king, having dug through the city wall, fled with a few, but, taken prisoner, first saw the killing of children, and then, deprived of sight, he was tied up and taken captive. The Lord will be their leader. Obviously not protecting, but escorting them into captivity.