Micah 2:9

You have forced women to leave their nice homes, and you have stolen from their children forever the ◄blessings/good things► that I wanted to give them.

Translation for Translators

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

8But 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!

10So get up and leave here! This is not a place where you can rest and be safe/protected, because you have ◄defiled it/caused it to be a place that I hate►; it will be completely destroyed.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:19Your majesty, listen to me! If Yahweh has caused you to be angry with me, I should offer a sacrifice in order to appease him. But if it is people who have caused you to be angry with me, I hope/desire that Yahweh will curse them. They have forced me to leave the land that Yahweh gave to me. They have told me, ‘Go somewhere else and worship other gods!’

Jeremiah 10:20It is as though our great tent is destroyed; the ropes that held it up have been cut; our children have gone away from us and will not return; there are no people left to rebuild our great tent.

Joel 3:6You dragged away the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and you took them far away and sold them to people in Greece.

Habakkuk 2:14But in contrast, like [SIM] the oceans are filled with water, the earth will be filled with people who know that Yahweh is very great.

Matthew 23:13Then Jesus said to the religious leaders, “You men who teach the Jewish laws and you Pharisees are hypocrites! There will be terrible punishment for you, because by teaching what is false, you prevent people [MTY/HYP] who are thinking about letting God rule their lives from doing that [MET]. What you are doing is like closing a gate [MET] so that people who are wanting to enter a city cannot go in. As for you, you do not let God rule your lives. Neither do you allow other people to let God rule their lives. What you do is like not going into a house yourselves, and not allowing others to enter it either [MET].”

Luke 20:47They swindle [MET] the houses and property of widows. Then they pretend they are good, as they pray long prayers publicly. God will certainly punish them very severely.”

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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