Micah 2:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ “And lately My people have risen up as an enemy. You strip off the robe with the garment from those who trust you, as they pass by – those returning from battle.

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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 of the peaceable and trustworthy ones in Yisra’ĕl. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Yisra’ĕl. Why do you swallow up the inheritance of יהוה?”

Psalm 55:20

He has put forth his hands against those Who were at peace with him; He has broken his covenant.

Isaiah 9:21

Menashsheh Ephrayim, and Ephrayim Menashsheh; together they are against Yehuḏah. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.

Jeremiah 12:8

“My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. It cries out against Me, therefore I have hated it.

Micah 3:2

you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,

Micah 3:3

and who have eaten the flesh of My people, and stripped off their skin, and have broken their bones, and have cut it up as into a pot, like flesh in the cooking pot?”

Micah 7:2

The lovingly-committed one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.