Micah 2:4

New King James Version

In that day one shall take up a proverb against you, And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has changed the heritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

Isaiah 14:4

that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!

Isaiah 24:3

The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, 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 and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”

Jeremiah 4:13

“Behold, he shall come up like clouds, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!”

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Against 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 will inherit them; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is given to covetousness; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, And for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation, Because they are burned up, So that no one can pass through; Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; They are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

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

Ezekiel 16:44

“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’

Ezekiel 2:10

Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, 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 yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals And a mourning like the ostriches,

Micah 2:10

“Arise and depart, For this is not your rest; Because it is defiled, it shall destroy, Yes, with utter destruction.

Habakkuk 2:6

“Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’?

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will utterly consume everything From the face of the land,” Says the Lord;

Numbers 23:18

Then he took up his oracle and said: “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, son of Zippor!

Numbers 23:7

And he took up his oracle and said: “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!’

Numbers 24:15

So he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened;

Numbers 24:3

Then he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, The utterance of the man whose eyes are opened,

Mark 12:12

And they sought to lay hands on Him, but feared the multitude, for they knew He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.