Micah 2:8

Even of late Ami is risen up as an oyev (enemy); 1 ye pull off the cloak from the garment 1 from them that pass by securely as men averse to milchamah (war). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7O thou that art named Bais Ya'akov, is the Ruach + 2:7 Hakodesh of Hashem angry? 1 Are these His doings? 1 Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 1

9The women of Ami have ye cast out from their pleasant homes; 1 from their ollalim have ye taken away My glory l'olam. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Therefore Hashem Elohav delivered him into the yad Melech Aram; and they defeated him, and carried off a great multitude of prisoners, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the yad Melech Yisroel, who inflicted on him makkah gedolah.

Psalms 120:6My nefesh hath long dwelt 1 with him that hateth shalom. 1

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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