Micah 2:4
In that day doth [one] take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of woe, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.
Cross References
Numbers 23:18And he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear unto me, son of Zippor!
Numbers 24:15And he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'An affirmation of Balaam son of Beor — And an affirmation of the man whose eyes [are] shut —
2 Samuel 1:17And David lamenteth with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son;
2 Chronicles 35:25and Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah, and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day, and set them for a statute on Israel, and lo, they are written beside the lamentations.
Job 27:1And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —
Isaiah 14:4That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,
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 →