Micah 2:9

The women of My people you cast out from its delightful house, || From its sucklings you take away My honor for all time.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

In Context

8And recently My people raise up as an enemy, || You strip off the honorable ornament from the outer garment, || From the confident passers by, || You who are turning back from war.

10Rise and go, for this [is] not the rest, || Because of uncleanness it corrupts, || And corruption is powerful.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:19And now, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant: if YHWH has moved you against me, let Him accept a present; but if [merely] the sons of men, they [are] cursed before YHWH, for today they have cast me out from being admitted into the inheritance of YHWH, saying, Go, serve other gods.

Jeremiah 10:20My tent has been spoiled, || And all my cords have been broken, || My sons have gone out from me, and they are not, || There is none stretching out my tent anymore, || And raising up my curtains.

Joel 3:6And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, || You have sold to the sons of Javan, || To put them far off from their border.

Habakkuk 2:14For the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of YHWH, || As the waters cover over a sea.

Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you permit those going in to enter.

Luke 20:47who devour the houses of the widows, and make long prayers for a pretense, these will receive more abundant judgment.”

Matthew Henry on Micah 2:7-12

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. ( b. c. 740.) 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. 7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The… Read the whole commentary →

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