Micah 2:4 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 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?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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.”

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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?

English Standard Version 2016

⁴ In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”

Micah 2:4 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David mourned a lamentation over Saul and over his son Jonathan, in this way.

2 Chronicles 35:25

most of all Jeremiah. All the singing men and women repeat his lamentations over Josiah, even to the present day. And this has become like a law in Israel. Behold, it is found written in the Lamentations.

Job 27:1

Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:

Isaiah 14:4

you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be utterly devastated and utterly plundered. For the Lord has spoken this word.

Isaiah 6:11

And I said, "For how long, O Lord?" And he said, "Until the cities are desolate, without an inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land will be left behind, deserted."

Jeremiah 14:18

"If I go out into the fields: behold, those slain by the sword. And if I enter into the city: behold, those weakened by famine. Likewise, the prophet, too, and the priest, have gone into a land that they did not know.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he will ascend like a cloud, and his chariot will ascend like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. 'Woe to us! For we are being devastated!'

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses will be given over to others, with both their lands and their wives. For I will extend my hand over the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:10

Because of this, I will give their wives to outsiders and their fields to others as an inheritance. For from the least, even to the greatest, they all pursue avarice; from the prophet, even to the priest, they all act with deceit.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will take up weeping and lamentation over the mountains, and mourning over the beautiful places in the desert. For they have been scorched because no man is passing through them. And they have not heard the voice of any occupant. From the birds of the air, even to the cattle, they have migrated and withdrawn.

Jeremiah 9:16

And I will disperse them among nations, which they and their fathers have not known. And I will send the sword after them, until they are consumed."

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, all who speak a common proverb will take this up against you, saying: 'Like the mother, so also is her daughter.'

Joel 1:13

Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.

Amos 5:1

Listen to this word, which I lift over you in lamentation. The house of Israel has fallen, and it will no longer rise again.

Amos 5:17

And in all the vineyards there will be wailing. For I will cross through your midst, says the Lord.

Micah 1:15

Nevertheless, I will lead an heir to you, who dwell in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will reach all the way to Adullam.

Micah 1:8

I will lament and wail about this. I will go out despoiled and naked. I will make a howl like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches.

Micah 2:10

Rise and depart, for there is no relief for you here. Because of its uncleanness, it will be corrupted with a most wicked decay.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and an enigmatic utterance about him? And it will be said, "Woe to him who increases what is not his own." How long, then, will he lay down dense clay against himself?

Zephaniah 1:2

While gathering, I will gather together all things from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

Numbers 23:18

But, taking up his parable, he said: "Stand, Balak, and pay attention. Listen, you son of Zippor.

Numbers 23:7

And taking up his parable, he said: "Balak, king of the Moabites, has led me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. 'Come forth,' he said, 'and curse Jacob. Hurry and condemn Israel.'

Numbers 24:15

Therefore, taking up his parable, he again spoke: "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,

Numbers 24:3

taking up his parable, he said: "Balaam, the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,

Mark 12:12

And they sought to take hold of him, but they feared the crowd. For they knew that he had spoken this parable about them. And leaving him behind, they went away.

Deuteronomy 28:29

And may you grope at midday, just as a blind man is accustomed to grope in darkness, and may your paths not be straight. And at all times may you suffer slander and be oppressed with violence, and may you have no one who may free you.