Micah 2:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

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

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Job 27:1

And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

Isaiah 14:4

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!

Isaiah 24:3

The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the Lord has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses shall be turned over to others, their 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 conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.

Jeremiah 9:10

“Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, every one who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Ezekiel 2:10

and he spread it before me; and it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Joel 1:13

Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

Amos 5:1

Hear this word which I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

Amos 5:17

and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of you,” says the Lord.

Micah 1:15

I will again bring a conqueror upon you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Micah 2:10

Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”

Zephaniah 1:2

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

Numbers 23:18

And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, “Rise, Balak, and hear; hearken to me, O son of Zippor:

Numbers 23:7

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

Numbers 24:15

And he took up his discourse, and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

Numbers 24:3

and he took up his discourse, and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

Mark 12:12

And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.