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    "content": "Micheas, Chapter 2 — 13 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "name": "Micheas",
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      "order": 38,
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  "citation": "Micheas 2 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their children.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.",
      "citation": "Micheas 2:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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