Micah 2:4

New English Translation

In that day people will sing this taunt song to you – they will mock you with this lament: ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

Job 27:1

And Job took up his discourse again:

Isaiah 14:4

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

Isaiah 6:11

I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said, “Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.’”

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. His horses move more swiftly than eagles.” I cry out, “We are doomed, for we will be destroyed!”

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power against those who live in this land,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

Jeremiah 9:10

I said, “I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”

Ezekiel 16:44

“‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

Ezekiel 2:10

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

Joel 1:13

Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

Amos 5:1

Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:

Amos 5:17

In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.

Micah 1:15

Residents of Mareshah, a conqueror will attack you, the leaders of Israel shall flee to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.

Micah 2:10

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

Habakkuk 2:6

“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: ‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?) – he who gets rich by extortion!’

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will destroy everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

Numbers 23:18

Balaam uttered his oracle, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

Numbers 24:15

Then he uttered this oracle: “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

Numbers 24:3

Then he uttered this oracle: “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

Mark 12:12

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.