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

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’?

Micah 1:15

I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

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.

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,

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.

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!’

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.

Zephaniah 1:2

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

Micah 2:10

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

Amos 5:17

In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass through you,” Says the Lord.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

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.

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.

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!”

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!

Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

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.

2 Samuel 1:17

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

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,

Numbers 23:18

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

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.

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,

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.”