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

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, "Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, 'Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'

Then he uttered this oracle: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

And Job took up his discourse again:

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: "Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

"'Observe -- everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."

"But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: 'The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?) -- he who gets rich by extortion!'

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

And lament

Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

I said, "I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone."

If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.'"

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:

A doleful lamentation

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

We

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

I replied, "How long, sovereign master?" He said, "Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail, 'We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.'"

So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.

"I will destroy everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord.

He hath changed

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

Residents of Mareshah, a conqueror will attack you, the leaders of Israel shall flee to Adullam.

Finally the Lord rejected Israel just as he had warned he would do through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power.

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!