Micah 2:4

New Century Version

At that time people will make fun of you and sing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; the Lord has taken away my people’s land. Yes, he has taken it away from me and divided our fields among our enemies!’ ”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

David sang a funeral song about Saul and his son Jonathan,

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah wrote some sad songs about Josiah. Even to this day all the men and women singers remember and honor Josiah with these songs. It became a custom in Israel to sing these songs that are written in the collection of sad songs.

Job 27:1

And Job continued speaking:

Isaiah 14:4

On that day Israel will sing this song about the king of Babylon: The cruel king who ruled us is finished; his angry rule is finished!

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be completely empty. The wealth will all be taken, because the Lord has commanded it.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked, “Lord, how long should I do this?” He answered, “Until the cities are destroyed and the people are gone, until there are no people left in the houses, until the land is destroyed and left empty.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see people killed by swords. If I go into the city, I see much sickness, because the people have no food. Both the priests and the prophets have been taken to a foreign land.’ ”

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! The enemy rises up like a cloud, and his chariots come like a tornado. His horses are faster than eagles. How terrible it will be for us! We are ruined!

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will be turned over to others, along with their fields and wives, because I will raise my hand and punish the people of Judah,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. Everyone, from the least important to the greatest, is greedy for money. Even the prophets and priests all tell lies.

Jeremiah 9:10

I, Jeremiah, will cry loudly for the mountains and sing a funeral song for the empty fields. They are empty, and no one passes through. The mooing of cattle cannot be heard. The birds have flown away, and the animals are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them through other nations that they and their ancestors never knew about. I will chase the people of Judah with the sword until they are all killed.”

Ezekiel 16:44

“ ‘Everyone who uses wise sayings will say this about you: “The daughter is like her mother.”

Ezekiel 2:10

He opened the scroll in front of me. Funeral songs, sad writings, and words about troubles were written on the front and back.

Joel 1:13

Priests, put on your rough cloth and cry to show your sadness. Servants of the altar, cry out loud. Servants of my God, keep your rough cloth on all night to show your sadness. Cry because there will be no more grain or drink offerings to offer in the Temple of your God.

Joel 1:8

Cry as a young woman cries when the man she was going to marry has died.

Amos 5:1

Listen to this funeral song that I sing about you, people of Israel.

Amos 5:17

People will be crying in all the vineyards, because I will pass among you to punish you,” says the Lord.

Micah 1:15

I will bring against you people who will take your land, you who live in Mareshah. The glory of Israel will go in to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

I will moan and cry because of this evil, going around barefoot and naked. I will cry loudly like the wild dogs and make sad sounds like the owls do,

Micah 2:10

Get up and leave. This is not your place of rest anymore. You have made this place unclean, and it is doomed to destruction.

Habakkuk 2:6

But all the nations the Babylonians have hurt will laugh at them. They will make fun of the Babylonians and say, ‘How terrible it will be for the one that steals many things. How long will that nation get rich by forcing others to pay them?’

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will sweep away everything from the earth,” says the Lord.

Numbers 23:18

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

Numbers 23:7

when Balaam gave them this message: “Balak brought me here from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern mountains. Balak said, ‘Come, put a curse on the people of Jacob for me. Come, call down evil on the people of Israel.’

Numbers 24:15

Then Balaam gave this message: “This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the message of a man who sees clearly;

Numbers 24:3

and he gave this message: “This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the message of a man who sees clearly;

Mark 12:12

The Jewish leaders knew that the story was about them. So they wanted to find a way to arrest Jesus, but they were afraid of the people. So the leaders left him and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will have to feel around in the daylight like a blind person. You will fail in everything you do. People will hurt you and steal from you every day, and no one will save you.