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Micah 2:4

New American Bible - revised edition

On that day you shall be mocked, and there will be bitter lament: “Our ruin is complete, our fields are divided among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!”

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Then David chanted this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan

Jeremiah also composed a lamentation for Josiah, which is recited to this day by all the male and female singers in their lamentations for Josiah. These have been made an ordinance for Israel, and can be found written in the Lamentations.

Job took up his theme again and said:

you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! how the turmoil has ended!

The earth shall be utterly laid waste, utterly stripped, for the Lord has decreed this word.

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; If I enter the city, look! victims of famine. Both prophet and priest ply their trade in a land they do not know.

See! like storm clouds he advances, like a whirlwind, his chariots; Swifter than eagles, his horses: “Woe to us! we are ruined.”

Their houses will fall to others, their fields and their wives as well; For I will stretch forth my hand against those who dwell in the land—oracle of the Lord.

Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new owners. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain, prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; The cities of Judah I will make a waste, where no one dwells.

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Inquire, and call the wailing women to come; summon the most skilled of them.

See, everyone who makes proverbs will make this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”

He unrolled it before me; it was covered with writing front and back. Written on it was: Lamentation, wailing, woe!

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests! wail, ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God! For the grain offering and the libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Wail like a young woman dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Hear this word which I utter concerning you, this dirge, house of Israel:

And in every vineyard there shall be lamentation when I pass through your midst, says the Lord.

Again I will bring the conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall come even to Adullam.

For this I will lament and wail, go barefoot and naked; I will utter lamentation like the jackals, mourning like the ostriches,

“Get up! Leave, this is no place to rest”; Because of uncleanness that destroys with terrible destruction.

Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, and make a riddle about him, saying: Ah! you who store up what is not yours —how long can it last!— you who load yourself down with collateral.

I will completely sweep away all things from the face of the land—oracle of the Lord.

Balaam recited his poem: Rise, Balak, and listen; give ear to my testimony, son of Zippor!

Then Balaam recited his poem: From Aram Balak has led me here, Moab’s king, from the mountains of Qedem: “Come, curse for me Jacob, come, denounce Israel.”

Then he recited his poem: The oracle of Balaam, son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is true,

and he recited his poem: The oracle of Balaam, son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is true,

They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away. Paying Taxes to the Emperor.

so that even at midday you will grope in the dark as though blind, unable to find your way. Despoilment. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, with no one to come to your aid.




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