Micah 2:10

Rise and go, for this [is] not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

11If one is going [with] the wind, And [with] falsehood hath lied: 'I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people!

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22'And ye have kept all My statutes, and all My judgments, and have done them, and the land vomiteth you not out whither I am bringing you in to dwell in it;

Deuteronomy 12:9for ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest, and unto the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

Joshua 23:15'And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you;

2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel hath Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur come, and taketh Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removeth them to Asshur.

2 Chronicles 7:20and this house that I have sanctified for My name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb, and for a byword, among all the peoples.

Psalms 95:11Where I sware in Mine anger, 'If they come in unto My rest — !'

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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