Micah 2:4
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.
Context
This verse from Micah Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Woe to those who devise wickedness on their beds and at morning's light practice it, seizing fields and houses. God is devising disaster against this family. False prophets tell people not to prophesy such things. But a remnant will be …
Other Translations
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.
In that day doth <FI>one<Fi> take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of woe, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.
In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.
Cross References
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of …
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes …
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes …
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: …
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So …
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from …
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations …
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and …