Micah 2:4
In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5Therefore thou shalt have no one to cast a line for the lot.
Cross References
Numbers 23:18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balac, and hear; hearken as a witness, thou son of Sepphor.
Numbers 24:15And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,
2 Samuel 1:17And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremias mourned over Josias, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josias until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.
Job 27:1And Job further continued and said in his parable,
Isaiah 14:4And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, + 14:4 Alex. + 'and thou shalt say in that day'.How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
Matthew Henry on Micah 2:2-6
The Sins of the People. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is… Read the whole commentary →