Micah 2:4 · Clearspring

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WEBBE

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!’”

BSB

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.’”

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

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בַּיּוֹם bai·yom on the day H3117 הַהוּא ha·hu' (the) that H1931 יִשָּׂא yi·sa' someone will lift up H5375 עֲלֵיכֶם 'a·lei·khem on you H5921 מָשָׁל ma·shal a saying H4912 וְנָהָה ve·na·hah and he will wail H5091 נְהִי ne·hi a wailing H5092 נִהְיָה nih·yah it is finished H1961 אָמַר 'a·mar he will say H559 שָׁדוֹד sha·dod utterly (devastate) H7703 נְשַׁדֻּנוּ ne·sha·du·nu we are devastated H7703 חֵלֶק che·lek [the] portion of H2506 עַמִּי 'a·mi people my H5971 יָמִיר ya·mir he exchanges H4171 אֵיךְ 'eikh how H349 יָמִישׁ ya·mish he removes [it] H4185 לִי li for me H9030 לְשׁוֹבֵב le·sho·vev to an apostate H7728 שָׂדֵינוּ sa·dei·nu fields our H7704 יְחַלֵּק ye·cha·lek he apportions H2505

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–5

Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It is of great moment to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a proper manner. If covetousness reigns in the heart, compassion is banished; and when the heart is thus engaged, violence and fraud commonly occupy the hands. The most haughty and secure in prosperity, are commonly most ready to despair in adversity. Woe to those from whom God turns away! Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregation of the Lord, or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges.

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