Parallel Verses
NET Bible
You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
New American Standard Bible
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her children you take My
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.
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.
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
Garash
Bayith
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Word Rejected
8 but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war. 9 You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance. 10 But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!
Cross References
Ezekiel 39:21
"I will display my majesty among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited among them.
Habakkuk 2:14
For recognition of the Lord's sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.
1 Samuel 26:19
So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, may he take delight in an offering. But if men have instigated this, may they be cursed before the Lord! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the Lord's inheritance, saying, 'Go on, serve other gods!'
Psalm 72:19
His glorious name deserves praise forevermore! May his majestic splendor fill the whole earth! We agree! We agree!
Jeremiah 10:20
But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.
Joel 3:6
You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.
Micah 2:2
They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
Zechariah 2:5
But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.'"
Matthew 23:13
"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
Mark 12:40
They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment."
Luke 20:47
They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."
2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said "Let light shine out of darkness," is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.