SinaiMicah 2:4
American Standard Version
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.
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Micah 2:4 in other translations
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!’ ”
Micah 2:4 in context
- 2And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- 3Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
- 4In 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.
- 5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.
- 6Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart.