Micah 2:4

New International Version

In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’ ”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers commemorate Josiah in the laments. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.

Job 27:1

And Job continued his discourse:

Isaiah 14:4

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’ ”

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! He advances like the clouds, his chariots come like a whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! We are ruined!

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.”

Ezekiel 16:44

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

Ezekiel 2:10

which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:

Amos 5:17

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

Micah 1:15

I will bring a conqueror against you who live in Mareshah. The nobles of Israel will flee to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl.

Micah 2:10

Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

Habakkuk 2:6

“Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, “ ‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?’

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

Numbers 23:18

Then he spoke his message: “Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam spoke his message: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

Numbers 24:15

Then he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,

Numbers 24:3

and he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,

Mark 12:12

Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.