Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Themes
Divorce » Often sought by the jews
Micah » One of the minor prophets » The oppressions of the covetous
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Word Rejected
8 And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war. 9 The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age. 10 Rise and go, for this is not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.
Cross References
Ezekiel 39:21
And I have given My honour among nations, And seen have all the nations My Judgment that I have done, And My hand that I have laid on them.
Habakkuk 2:14
For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover the bottom of a sea.
1 Samuel 26:19
And, now, let, I pray thee, my lord the king hear the words of his servant: if Jehovah hath moved thee against me, let Him accept a present; and if the sons of men -- cursed are they before Jehovah, for they have cast me out to-day from being admitted into the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Psalm 72:19
And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!
Jeremiah 10:20
My tent hath been spoiled, And all my cords have been broken, My sons have gone out from me, and they are not, There is none stretching out any more my tent, And raising up my curtains.
Joel 3:6
And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.
Micah 2:2
And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.
Zechariah 2:5
And I -- I am to her -- an affirmation of Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for honour I am in her midst.
Matthew 23:13
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
Mark 12:40
who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
Luke 20:47
who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
2 Corinthians 3:18
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:6
because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.