Micah 2:4

On that day they will make up a saying to taunt you. With a mocking lament they will say, “We are totally ruined! Our possessions are being sold off. They've taken everything away, and given our fields to your conquerors.”

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In The King James Version

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

In Context

3So this is what the Lord says. Watch out! I am planning to bring disaster on such families. They won't be able to escape. You will no longer walk around arrogantly, for this will be a time of disaster.

5Consequently at that time there will be none of you in the assembly of the Lord responsible for the division of the land.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:18This is the prophecy that Balaam delivered: “Stand up, Balak, and pay attention! Listen to me, son of Zippor!

Numbers 24:15Then Balaam gave a declaration, saying, “This is the prophecy of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are wide open

2 Samuel 1:17Then David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Chronicles 35:25Then Jeremiah wrote a lament over Josiah, and to this day male and female choirs sing sad songs about Josiah. They have become a part of what is regularly sung in Israel, and they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

Job 27:1Job began to speak again.

Isaiah 14:4You will mock the king of Babylon, saying, “How your oppressive rule has been ended, and your insolence stopped!

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 →

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