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Micah 2:4 KJV
Micah · chapter 2 · verse 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.Micah 2:4 · King James Version
Micah 2:4 in context
2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4In 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.
5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
6Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- lamentationnᵉhîyan elegyH5092 →
- parablemâshâlproperly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical natureH4912 →
- dolefulnihyâhlamentationH5093 →
- utterlyshâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- changedmûwrto alterH4171 →
- portionchêleqproperly, smoothnessH2506 →
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Here is, I. The injustice of man contriving the evil of sin, Mic 2:1, Mic 2:2. God was coming forth against this people to destroy them, and here he shows what was the ground of his controversy with them;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5