David lamented with this lamentation over Sha'ul and over Yonatan his son
Micah 2:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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!'* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In that day shall they take up a [taunting] parable against you and wail with a doleful and bitter lamentation and say, We are utterly ruined and laid waste! [God] changes the portion of my people. How He removes it from me! He divides our fields [to the rebellious, our captors]. American Standard Version (1901) In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields. Common English Bible On that day, a taunt will be raised against you; someone will wail bitterly: “We are utterly destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; he removes what belongs to me; he gives away our fields to a rebel.” Catholic Public Domain Version In that day, a parable will be taken up about you, and a song will be sung with sweetness, saying: "We have been devastated by depopulation." The fate of my people has been altered. How can he withdraw from me, when he might be turned back, he who might tear apart our country? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land? |
David lamented with this lamentation over Sha'ul and over Yonatan his son
Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Yisra'el: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.
that you will take up this parable against the king of Bavel, and say, *How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!*
The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has spoken this word.
Then I said, *Lord, how long?* He answered, *Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the Kohen go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.
Their houses shall 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.
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the Kohen every one deals falsely.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you Kohanim! 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.
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Yisra'el.
In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you,* says the LORD.
I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Yisra'el will come to `Adullam.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
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?'
I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says the LORD.
He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Tzippor.
He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Mo'av from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Ya`akov, Come, defy Yisra'el.
He took up his parable, and said, Bil`am the son of Be'or says, the man whose eye was closed says;
He took up his parable, and said, Bil`am the son of Be'or says, the man whose eye was closed says;
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.
and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.