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10 “Get up and go,
    because there’s no rest for you here!
Since everything[a] is polluted, it can only cause destruction,
    even heavy destruction.
11 Suppose a man who keeps company with a deceiving spirit prophesies like this:
    ‘Drink wine and strong drink!’
        Won’t the people accept him as a prophet?”

The Coming Judgment

12 “Jacob, how I will surely gather all of you!
    How I will gather the survivors of Israel!
I will gather them together like sheep in a pen,[b]
    like the flock in the midst of the sheepfold.
        There will be a great commotion because of all[c] the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:10 Lit. it
  2. Micah 2:12 Or sheep of Bozrah
  3. Micah 2:12 The Heb. lacks all

10 Get up, go away!
    For this is not your resting place,(A)
because it is defiled,(B)
    it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
11 If a liar and deceiver(C) comes and says,
    ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’(D)
    that would be just the prophet for this people!(E)

Deliverance Promised

12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob;
    I will surely bring together the remnant(F) of Israel.
I will bring them together like sheep in a pen,
    like a flock in its pasture;
    the place will throng with people.(G)

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