Micah 2:4

A Conservative Version

In that day they shall take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. [And] say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me! He divides our fields to the rebelliou

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!

Micah 1:15

I will yet bring to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him who shall possess thee. The glory of Israel shall come even to Adullam.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the

Isaiah 24:3

The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste, for LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

Deuteronomy 28:29

and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.

Numbers 23:7

And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

Mark 12:12

And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away.

Zephaniah 1:2

I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, says LORD.

Micah 2:10

Arise ye, and depart, for this is not your resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, says LORD.

Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Ezekiel 2:10

And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside. And there were written in it lamentations and mourning and woe.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Isaiah 14:4

that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!

Job 27:1

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. And all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel, and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

2 Samuel 1:17

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Numbers 24:15

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

Numbers 24:3

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

Numbers 23:18

And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Hearken to me, thou son of Zippor.

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says LORD.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.