Micah 2:9

The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their childre haue ye taken away my glorie continually.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 hee that was yesterday my people, is risen vp on the other side, as against an enemie: they spoyle the beautifull garment from them that passe by peaceably, as though they returned from the warre.

10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, euen with a sore destruction.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:19Now therefore, I beseech thee, let my lord the King heare the wordes of his seruant. If the Lord haue stirred thee vp against me, let him smell the sauour of a sacrifice: but if the children of men haue done it, cursed be they before the Lord: for they haue cast me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Goe, serue other gods.

Jeremiah 10:20My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my coardes are broken: my children are gone from me, and are not: there is none to spread out my tent any more, and to set vp my curtaines.

Joel 3:6The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that ye might send them farre from their border.

Habakkuk 2:14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters couer the sea.

Matthew 23:13Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.

Luke 20:47Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.

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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