Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Therefore, you will have no one stretching a measuring line [dividing the common land]
For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
King James Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Holman Bible
in the assembly of the Lord
to divide the land by casting lots.
International Standard Version
"This is why there will not be left even a single person to settle boundary disputes in the LORD's community.
A Conservative Version
Therefore thou shall have nobody to cast the line by lot in the assembly of LORD.
American Standard Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.
Darby Translation
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
For this there shall not be to thee any casting a cord by lot in the convocation of Jehovah.
King James 2000
Therefore you shall have none that shall determine boundaries by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore there shall not be for you one casting a line by lot in the congregation of Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Nevertheless there shall be no man to divide thee thy portion in the congregation of the LORD.
NET Bible
Therefore no one will assign you land in the Lord's community.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, shalt thou have none to throw a measuring-line by lot, - in the convocation of Yahweh.
Webster
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
World English Bible
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.
Themes
Cord » Ancient uses of » In casting lots
Casting Lots » The land of canaan divided among tribes by
Micah » One of the minor prophets » The oppressions of the covetous
Topics
Interlinear
Shalak
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 2:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Woe To The Oppressors Of God's People
4
“On that day they shall take up a [taunting, deriding] parable against you
And wail with a doleful and bitter song of mourning and say,
‘We are completely destroyed!
God exchanges the inheritance of my people;
How He removes it from me!
He divides our fields to the rebellious [our captors].’
“Therefore, you will have no one stretching a measuring line [dividing the common land]
For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
‘Do not speak out,’ so they speak out.
But if they do not speak out concerning these things,
Reproaches will not be turned back.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:8
“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the sons of Israel.
Joshua 18:4
Provide for yourselves three men from each tribe so that I may send them, and that they may go through the land and write a description of it with regard to their [tribal] inheritance; then they shall return to me.
Joshua 18:10
Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel, [to each tribe] according to their portions.
Deuteronomy 23:2
A person of
Deuteronomy 23:8
Their children of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
Nehemiah 7:61
And these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon and Immer; but they [had no birth records and] could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they were of Israel:
Psalm 16:6
The [boundary] lines [of the land] have fallen for me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.
Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the land of the Lord,
But Ephraim will return to [another] Egypt [in bondage]
And they will eat [ceremonially] unclean food in Assyria.