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Micah 2:6

Truth and honesty

4 In that day they will take up a proverb against you 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.’”

5 Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

8 But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
KJV
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
WEB
“Don’t prophesy!”—they prophesy— “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
ASV
Prophesy ye not, [thus] they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.
DARBY
Prophesy ye not, they prophesy. If they do not prophesy to these, the ignominy will not depart.
BLB
“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach to these things, disgrace will not overtake [us].”
ÅB
«Prek ikke!» preker de.
«Slikt skal de ikke preke om.
Skam rammer oss ikke.»
OTB
‘Ikke profeter,’ sier de.
Likevel, hvis de avstår fra å profetere om disse sakene,
Vil ikke deres skam bli vendt tilbake.”
B1930
Prek ikke! Så preker de. De må ikke preke om slikt, det blir ingen ende på skjellsord. / < de sanne profeter, sier de mektige undertrykkere, må ikke preke om ulykke; deres tale er bare en endeløs rekke av skjellsord.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Amos 2:12

    “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

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  • Isaiah 30:10

    They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

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  • Acts 5:40

    At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

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  • Ezekiel 3:26

    I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

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  • Psalms 74:9

    There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.

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  • Amos 8:11–13

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

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  • Amos 7:13

    But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”

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  • Jeremiah 26:8–9

    and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!

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