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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.’”

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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.

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.

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20 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בַּיּ֨וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117 →
הַה֜וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931 →
יִשָּׂ֧אyi.Sa'someone will lift upH5375 →
עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם'a.lei.Khemon youH5921 →
מָשָׁ֗לma.Shala sayingH4912 →
וְנָהָ֨הve.na.Hahand he will wailH5091 →
נְהִ֤יne.Hia wailingH5092 →
נִֽהְיָה֙nih.Yahit is finishedH1961 →
אָמַר֙'a.Marhe will sayH559 →
שָׁד֣וֹדsha.Dodutterly <devastate>H7703 →
נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּne.sha.Du.nuwe are devastatedH7703 →
חֵ֥לֶקChe.lek[the] portion ofH2506 →
עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
יָמִ֑ירya.Mirhe exchangesH4171 →
אֵ֚יךְ'eikhhow!H349 →
יָמִ֣ישׁya.Mishhe removes [it]H4185 →
לִ֔יLifor me
לְשׁוֹבֵ֥בle.sho.Vevto an apostateH7728 →
שָׂדֵ֖ינוּsa.Dei.nufields ourH7704 →
יְחַלֵּֽק׃ye.cha.Lekhe apportionsH2505 →

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Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’Jeremiah 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.Isaiah 6:11Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,Jeremiah 9:17–21This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.Numbers 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’Micah 1:15I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.Matthew 13:3And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed.Joel 1:8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.Job 27:1Job continued his discourse:2 Samuel 1:17Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,Micah 2:10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”Amos 5:1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:Numbers 24:3and he lifted up an oracle, saying: “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,2 Kings 17:23–24Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.

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Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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