Micah 2:9

You drive the women belonging to my people from their pleasant houses; 1 you take my blessing from their young children forever. 1

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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

8Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. 1 You strip the robe, the garment, from those who pass by unsuspectingly, 1 as soldiers return from war to what they think is safety. 1

10Get up and leave, 1 for this is not a place where you can stay, 1 because of its uncleanness; 1 it is destroyed with complete destruction. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:19Now therefore, I beg you, let my master the king listen to the words of his servant. If it is Yahweh who has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering; but if it is human beings, may they be cursed in the sight of Yahweh, for they have today driven me out, that I should not cling to the inheritance of Yahweh; they have said to me, 'Go worship other gods.'

Jeremiah 10:20My tent is devastated, and all of my tent cords are cut in two. 1 They have taken my children away from me, so they no longer exist. There is no longer anyone to spread out my tent or to raise up my tent curtains. 1

Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, 1 in order to remove them far from their territory. 1

Habakkuk 2:14Yet the land will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea. 1

Matthew 23:13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against people. For you do not enter it yourselves, and neither do you allow those about to enter to do so.

Luke 20:47They also devour widows' houses, and for a show they make long prayers. Men like this will receive greater condemnation.”

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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