Micah 2:9

Women of my people you drive out from their happy homes, from their young children you take away my glory forever.

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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

8But you, you stand up as a foe against those who are peaceful; you strip the robe from those who pass by quietly, averse to conflict.

10Rise and begone, for this is no place to rest. Your uncleanness brings destruction, severe destruction.

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Cross References

Joel 3:6you have sold the people of Judah and of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you might remove them far from their own borders.

Habakkuk 2:14and the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the seas are full of water.

Matthew 23:13But alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you do not go in yourselves, and do not allow those who try to go in to do so.

Luke 20:47These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.”

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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