Micah 2:4

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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

Balaam delivered this message: Balak brought me from Aram. The king of Moab summoned me from the eastern mountains. Come and curse Jacob for me, he said. 'Come and condemn Israel.

He uttered this prophecy: The message of Balaam son of Beor. These are the words of the man who can see clearly.

JOB CONTINUED:

You will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!

Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you: Like mother, like daughter.

Will they all taunt him by directing clever sayings and riddles at him? They will say: How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own (by extortion) and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?

They tried to capture him but feared the crowd. They perceived that he spoke the illustration against them. So they left him and went away.

And lament

Then David chanted with a lament (dirge) (requiem) over Saul and Jonathan his son.

Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. All the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations (dirges) to this day. They made them an ordinance in Israel. They are also written in the Lamentations.

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Hear this word that I take up for a cry of sorrow (lamentation) (dirge) over you, O house of Israel.

A doleful lamentation

He slowly spread the scroll in front of me. There was writing on the front and back. There were funeral songs (dirges), songs of mourning and horrible things written on it.

We

that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person. You will tell day from night! For the rest of your life, people will beat and rob you. No one will be able to stop them.

Then I said: How long, O Jehovah? And He answered: Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, until the houses are deserted and the land is utterly desolate.

The earth will be completely uninhabitable and totally plundered. Jehovah has spoken this word.

A voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How we are ruined! We are put to great shame for we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

so I am going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, says Jehovah. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I am going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.

I will destroy (take away) (remove) (consume) everything on the face of the earth! declared Jehovah. (Zephaniah 2:3)

He hath changed

Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.

I will yet bring a conqueror against you, O inhabitant of Mareshah! He will possess you. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Jehovah removed Israel from his sight as he said he would through all his servants the prophets. Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

The survivors were taken to Babylonia as prisoners. They served as slaves of the king and his sons, until Persia became a powerful nation.

O Jehovah, why do you let us wander from your ways and become so stubborn that we are unable to respect you? Return for the sake of your servants. They are the tribes that belong to you.