A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Micah 2:1-5
Woe to those who plan iniquity,/ and work out evil on their couches;/ In the morning light they accomplish it/ when it lies within their power./ They covet fields, and seize them;/ houses, and they take them;/ They cheat an owner of his house,/ a man of his inheritance./ Therefore thus says the Lord:/ Behold, I am planning against this race an evil/ from which you shall not withdraw your necks;/ Nor shall you walk with head high,/ for it will be a time of evil.
On that day a satire shall be sung over you,/ and there shall be a plaintive chant:/ “Our ruin is complete,/ our fields are portioned out among our captors,/ The fields of my people are measured out,/ and no one can get them back!”/ Thus you shall have no one/ to mark out boundaries by lot/ in the assembly of the Lord.
The word of the Lord.
