Micah 2:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ But you rise against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But lately (yesterday) My people have stood up as an enemy [and have made Me their antagonist]. Off from the garment you strip the cloak of those who pass by in secure confidence of safety and are averse to war.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

Common English Bible

⁸ But yesterday, my people, the LORD rose up as an enemy. You strip off the glorious clothes from trusting passersby, those who reject war.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But, to the contrary, my people have risen up in opposition. You have lifted the cover from the undergarment, and those who passed by harmlessly, you have converted into war.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.

Micah 2:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

Psalm 55:20

My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant.

Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 12:8

My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.

Micah 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;

Micah 3:3

who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.

Micah 7:2

The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.