Micah 2:4
In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
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.
Note a doleful…: Heb. a lamentation of lamentations
Note turning…: or, instead of restoring
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- shall
- Numbers 23:7, 18; Numbers 24:3, 15; Job 27:1; Isaiah 14:4; Ezekiel 16:44; Habakkuk 2:6; Mark 12:12
- and lament
- 2 Samuel 1:17; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:10, 17–21; Jeremiah 14:18; Joel 1:8, 13; Amos 5:1, 17
- a doleful lamentation
- Heb. a lamentation of lamentations.
- Lamentations 1:1; Ezekiel 2:10
- We
- Deuteronomy 28:29; Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 24:3; Jeremiah 9:19; Jeremiah 25:9–11; Zephaniah 1:2
- he hath changed
- Micah 2:10; Micah 1:15; 2 Kings 17:23, 24; 2 Chronicles 36:20, 21; Isaiah 63:17, 18