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 Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'

and he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!

"Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.'

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!"

And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

And lament

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

"I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.

If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.'"

Lament like a virginwearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

A doleful lamentation

And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

We

and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,

The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the LORD has spoken this word.

For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

"I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

He hath changed

Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,

O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.