Micah 2:4
In that day, shall one take up against you a by-word, and lament a lamentable lamentation, saying—we are made, utterly desolate, the portion of my people, he passeth to others,—How doth he set me aside! To an apostate, our fields, doth he apportion.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
5Therefore, shalt thou have none to throw a measuring-line by lot,—in the convocation of Yahweh.
Cross References
Numbers 23:18Then took he up his parable and said,—Rise, Balak, and hear, Give ear unto me son of Zippor!
Numbers 24:15So he took up his parable and said,—The oracle of Balaam, son of Beor, Yea the oracle of the man, of opened eye;
2 Samuel 1:17Then chanted David this dirge,—over Saul and over Jonathan his son;
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women in their dirges have spoken concerning Josiah, until this day, and they appointed them by statute for Israel,—and, there they are, written among the dirges.
Job 27:1And Job again took up his measure, and said:—
Isaiah 14:4that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say:—How hath ceased the oppressor! Ceased the exactress!
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 →