Micahchapter 2
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Original Language
Micah 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Micah 2. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
The yearly cycle does not read Micah 2. The Haftarah is drawn from the Prophets a passage at a time rather than continuously, so most chapters of most prophetic books are never read in the service, and this is one of them.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
5 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 5 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Woe to those who plan iniquity on their beds1
Micah 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 2:1
and work evil on their bed —All night they decide in their hearts how they will perform evil in the morning.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Do not prophesy, they say — a windy liar would suit them6
Micah 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Micah 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 2:10
Arise and go, for this is not the tranquility —Arise and go into exile from the land, for it was not in this manner that I gave it to you for tranquility.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 2:11
If a man walking in wind —If they (the people) would find a man walking in wind, a false man prophesying to them that they become drunk with wine and strong drink, he would be an acceptable prophet to this people.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
The breaker goes up before them12
Micah 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 2:12
I will surely assemble —Days will yet come when I will assemble you.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Micah 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Micah 2:13
The breaker has gone up —Their savior, who breaks the fences of thorns and the hedges of briers, to straighten the road before them.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg