Micah 2:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Micah 1:15

Yet will I bring an heir to thee that dwellest in Maresa: even to Odollam shall the glory of Israel come.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them. And they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts, they are gone away and departed.

Isaiah 24:3

With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Deuteronomy 28:29

And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence: and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Numbers 23:7

And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: Make haste and detest Israel.

Mark 12:12

And they sought to lay hands on him, but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.

Zephaniah 1:2

Gathering, I will gather together all things from off the face of the land, saith the Lord:

Micah 2:10

Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

Amos 5:17

And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

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

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, every one that useth a common proverb shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go forth into the fields behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are laid waste!

Isaiah 14:4

Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

Job 27:1

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2 Chronicles 35:25

Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day. And it became like a law in Israel: Behold, it is found written in the Lamentations.

2 Samuel 1:17

And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.

Numbers 24:15

Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up hath said:

Numbers 24:3

He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up:

Numbers 23:18

But he taking up his parable said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor.

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

Micah 1:8

Therefore will I lament and howl: I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches.

Jeremiah 9:16

And I will scatter them among the nations which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.