Parallel Verses
King James Version
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
New American Standard Bible
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her children you take My
Holman Bible
out of their comfortable homes,
and you take My blessing
from their children forever.
International Standard Version
You have evicted the wives of my people from their dream homes; you have removed my majesty from their children permanently.
A Conservative Version
Ye cast out the women of my people from their pleasant houses. Ye take away my glory from their young sons forever.
American Standard Version
The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
Amplified
“You evict the women (widows) of My people,
Each one from her pleasant house;
From her [young, fatherless] children you take away My splendor and blessing forever [by putting them among the pagans, away from Me].
Bible in Basic English
The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.
Darby Translation
The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.
Julia Smith Translation
The women of my people ye will thrust out from the house of her delights; from her children ye will take my majesty forever.
King James 2000
The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have driven out the women of my people from the houses of their pleasure. From their children you have taken away my glory forever.
Modern King James verseion
You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
the women of my people have ye shot out from their good houses, and taken away my excellent gifts from their children.
NET Bible
You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
New Heart English Bible
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
The Emphasized Bible
The wives of my people, ye do even drive out, each from the house of her darlings, - from over her children, ye do take away mine ornament, as long as life shall last.
Webster
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
World English Bible
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
Youngs Literal Translation
The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.
Themes
Divorce » Often sought by the jews
Micah » One of the minor prophets » The oppressions of the covetous
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Word Rejected
8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Cross References
Ezekiel 39:21
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Psalm 72:19
And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Jeremiah 10:20
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Joel 3:6
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Micah 2:2
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Zechariah 2:5
For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Mark 12:40
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Luke 20:47
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.