Micah 2:4

American King James Version (1999)

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

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

2 Chronicles 35:25

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

Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Isaiah 14:4

That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Isaiah 24:3

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

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

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 them that are sick with famine! yes, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are spoiled.

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Ezekiel 2:10

And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

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

Amos 5:1

Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, said the LORD.

Micah 1:15

Yet will I bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come to Adullam the glory of Israel.

Micah 1:8

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Micah 2:10

Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that lades himself with thick clay!

Zephaniah 1:2

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, said the LORD.

Numbers 23:18

And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, you son of Zippor:

Numbers 23:7

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

Numbers 24:15

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:

Numbers 24:3

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:

Mark 12:12

And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

Deuteronomy 28:29

And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled ever more, and no man shall save you.