Micah 2:4

Modern English Version

In that day they will take up a taunt against you, and they will wail a wailing lament, and say: “We are totally ruined! He diminishes the portion of my people; how He removes it from me! To a traitor He reassigns our fields!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David recited this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah composed a dirge for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day; and they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his discourse:

Isaiah 14:4

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 despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered: “Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, those who are sick with famine! Indeed, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they do not know.

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 ruined!

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

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

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

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

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, “Like mother, like daughter.”

Ezekiel 2:10

And He spread it before me. And there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

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

Amos 5:1

Hear this word which I take up as a dirge against you, O house of Israel:

Amos 5:17

In all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through you, says the Lord.

Micah 1:15

I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail, I will go about barefoot and naked; I will howl like the jackals and moan like owlets.

Micah 2:10

Get up and go, for this is not the resting place, because uncleanness ruins, and ruin sickens.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, with satire and riddles, and say, “Woe to him who increases what is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with heavy debts!”

Zephaniah 1:2

I will utterly consume all things on the face of the earth, says 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

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying: “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel!’

Numbers 24:15

He took up his parable and said: “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, and the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

Numbers 24:3

He took up his proverb and said: “Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said,

Mark 12:12

Then they tried to seize Him, but feared the people, for they knew that He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went their way.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and continually robbed, and no man will save you.