Micah 2:8
But Yahweh says, “ Recently my people have been acting toward me like an enemy. When soldiers return from fighting against their enemies, you rich people refuse to return the coats of those poor soldiers who have borrowed money from you and given you their coats to guarantee that they will pay back the money that they borrowed from you. It is as though you are waiting to forcefully take their coats off their backs!
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2 Chronicles 28:5Therefore Yahweh his God allowed his army to be defeated by the army of the king of Syria. They captured many soldiers of Judah and took them as prisoners to Damascus. The army of the king of Israel also defeated the army of Judah and killed very many of their soldiers.
Psalms 120:6I have lived for a long time among people who hate to live with others peacefully.
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 →