Micah 2:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

Shall

Mark 12:12

And lament

A doleful lamentation

Ezekiel 2:10

We

He hath changed

Isaiah 63:17

Bible References

Shall

And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.

And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:

And Job again took up the word and said,

That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;

See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

And lament

Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:

And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.

Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

A doleful lamentation

And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.

We

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

He hath changed

Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.

Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

And all who had not come to death by the sword he took away prisoners to Babylon; and they became servants to him and to his sons till the kingdom of Persia came to power:

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.