David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,
Micah 2:4 - Y'all Version Bible In that day they will take up a parable against y’all, and lament with a mournful lamentation, saying, ‘We are destroyed-destroyed! 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 Saul and over Jonathan his son,
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. They are written in the lamentations.
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ended! How fury has ceased!”
The earth will be emptied-emptied and plundered-plundered, for YHWH has spoken this word.
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
If I go out into the field, I see those slain by the sword! If I enter into the city, I see those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”
Look! He will advances like the clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
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 YHWH.”
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.
I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned 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.
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their ancestors have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
“‘“Look, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.
Y’all get dressed and mourn, priests! Y’all wail, ministers of the altar. Y’all come and lie all night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from y’all’s God’s house.
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Y’all must listen to this word that I take up for a lament over y’all, O house of Israel:
In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says YHWH.
I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
Y’all must get up go! For this is not a resting place, because uncleanness destroys with a grievous destruction.
Will not all these take up a taunt against him, and a mocking riddle 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 from the surface of the earth, says YHWH.
He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
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.
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
Then they tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd, for they perceived that he spoken the parable against them. They left him and went away.
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.