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The women of my people you drive out
    from their pleasant houses;
from their young children you take away
    my glory for ever.
10 Arise and go;
    for this is no place to rest,
because of uncleanness that destroys
    with a grievous destruction.[a]
11 If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods,
    saying, ‘I will preach to you of wine and strong drink’,
    such a one would be the preacher for this people!

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:10 Meaning of Heb uncertain

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

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