Micah 2:4

At that time, your enemies will make fun of you; they will ridicule you by singing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; Yahweh is taking our land/fields from us, and he will give it to those who will capture us.’”

Translation for Translators

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

3Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: “I will cause you people to experience disasters, and you will not be able to escape [MTY] from them. You will no longer walk around proudly, because when those things happen, it will be a time of much trouble for you.

5So when it is the time for the land to be given back to you people who belong to Yahweh, there will be no one [MTY] who will be able to ◄cast lots/throw marked stones► to determine which land belongs to whom.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:18Then Balaam told him this message: “Balak, listen carefully; hear what I have to say, you son of Zippor [DOU]!

Numbers 24:15So Balaam said this to Balak: “I, Balaam, son of Beor, am again giving a prophecy, speaking as a man who sees what will happen in the future clearly speaks.

2 Samuel 1:17Then David composed/wrote this sad song about Saul and Jonathan,

2 Chronicles 35:25The prophet Jeremiah composed a song to mourn for Josiah, and all the men and women singers in Israel still mourn for Josiah by singing that song. That became a custom in Israel; the words of that song are written in a scroll of funeral songs.

Job 27:1Job replied again to his three friends,

Isaiah 14:4When that happens, you will make fun of the King of Babylon by saying this: “You treated us cruelly, but that has ended! Your insolently causing others to suffer is finished!

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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