Day 1 · Woe to Oppressors
Micah 2:1–5
1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. 2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. 3Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity. 4In 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.’” 5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
Berean Standard Bible
Observe
What contrast do you notice between what the oppressors plan on their beds (v. 1) and what the LORD plans in response (v. 3)?
Apply
Where might you be tempted to use your position or advantage for self-interest this week, and how can you choose fairness instead?
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