Micah 2:4

World Messianic Bible British Edition

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:17

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

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Job 27:1

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Isaiah 14:4

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

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, then behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on 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 possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

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

Ezekiel 16:44

“‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

Ezekiel 2:10

He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Joel 1:8

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Amos 5:1

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:

Amos 5:17

In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says the LORD.

Micah 1:15

I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.

Micah 2:10

Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Zephaniah 1:2

I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says the LORD.

Numbers 23:18

He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

Numbers 23:7

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

Numbers 24:15

He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;

Numbers 24:3

He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;

Mark 12:12

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.