Micah 2:4

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When that day comes, people will make fun of you. They will sing this sad song about you: “We are completely ruined. The Lord gives our people’s possessions ⌞to others⌟. He takes them from us. He divides our fields among our captors.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

David wrote this song of mourning for Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah sang a funeral song about Josiah. All the male and female singers still sing funeral songs about Josiah today. This became a tradition in Israel. They are written in ⌞the Book of⌟ the Funeral Songs.

Job 27:1

Job continued his poems and said,

Isaiah 14:4

Then you will mock the king of Babylon with this saying, “How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!”

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be completely laid waste and stripped because the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 6:11

I asked, “How long, O Lord?” And he replied, “Until the cities lie in ruins with no one living in them, the houses have no people, and the land is completely desolate.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they haven’t heard of.

Jeremiah 4:13

The enemy comes up like clouds. His chariots are like a raging wind. His horses are faster than eagles. How horrible it will be for us! We will be destroyed!

Jeremiah 6:12

Their households, their fields, and their wives will be turned over to others. I will use my power against those who live in the land,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

That is why I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. All of them, from the least important to the most important, are eager to make money dishonestly. All of them, from prophets to priests, act deceitfully.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that they and their ancestors haven’t heard of. I will send armies after them until I’ve wiped them out.

Ezekiel 16:44

“ ‘Everyone who uses proverbs will speak the following saying against you: Like mother, like daughter.

Ezekiel 2:10

He spread the scroll in front of me. There was writing on the front and back. There were funeral songs, songs of mourning, and horrible things written on it.

Joel 1:13

Put on your sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Cry loudly, you servants of the altar. Spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. Grain offerings and wine offerings are withheld from your God’s temple.

Joel 1:8

Cry loudly like a young woman who is dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the man she was going to marry.

Amos 5:1

Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel:

Amos 5:17

There will be loud crying in every vineyard, because I will pass through your land ⌞with death⌟. The Lord has said this.

Micah 1:15

I will again bring a conqueror against the inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

I will mourn and cry because of this. I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will cry like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Micah 2:10

Get up, and go away! This is not a place to rest! It will be destroyed, completely destroyed, because it offends me.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won’t all of them ridicule him, directing clever sayings and riddles at him, like: “ ‘How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?’

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will gather everything on the face of the earth and put an end to it,” declares the Lord.

Numbers 23:18

Then Balaam delivered this message: “Stand up, Balak, and listen! Hear me, son of Zippor!

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam delivered this message: “Balak brought me from Aram. The king of Moab summoned me from the eastern mountains. ‘Come, curse Jacob for me,’ he said. ‘Come, condemn Israel.’

Numbers 24:15

Then Balaam delivered this message: “This is the message of Balaam, son of Beor. This is the message of the man whose eyesight is clear.

Numbers 24:3

and he delivered this message: “This is the message of Balaam, son of Beor. This is the message of the man whose eyesight is clear.

Mark 12:12

They wanted to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. They knew that he had directed this illustration at them. So they left him alone and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won’t be successful in anything you do. As long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you.