Micah 2:4-13

4 "On that day they will ¹take up against you a taunt And ²utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely ³destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He ⁴apportions our fields.'

5 "Therefore you will have no one ⁵stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

6 '⁶Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do ⁷not speak out concerning these things, ⁸Reproaches will not be turned back.

7 "Is it being said, O house of Jacob: 'Is the Spirit of the LORD ⁹impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words ¹⁰do good To the one ¹¹walking uprightly?

8 "Recently My people have arisen as an ¹²enemy - You ¹³strip the robe * off the garment From ¹⁴unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war.

9 "The women of My people you ¹⁵evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My ¹⁶splendor forever.

10 "Arise and go, For this is no place ¹⁷of rest Because of the ¹⁸uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.

11 "If a man walking after wind and ¹⁹falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning ²⁰wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to ²¹this people.

12 "I will surely ²²assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the ²³remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men.

13 "The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head."

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Micah 2:4-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 2

In this chapter complaint is made of the sins of the people of Israel, and they are threatened with punishment for them. The sins they are charged with are covetousness, oppression, and injustice, which were premeditated, and done deliberately, Mic 2:1,2; therefore the Lord devised evil against them, they should not escape; and which would bring down their pride, and cause them to take up a lamentation, because they should not enjoy the portion of land that belonged to them, Mic 2:3-5; they are further charged with opposing the prophets of the Lord, the folly and wickedness of which is exposed, Mic 2:6,7; and with great inhumanity and barbarity, even to women and children, Mic 2:8,9; and therefore are ordered to expect and prepare for a removal out of their land, Mic 2:10; and the rather, since they gave encouragement and heed to false prophets, and delighted in them, Mic 2:11; and the chapter is concluded with words of comfort to the remnant among them, and with precious promises of the Messiah, and the blessings of grace by him, Mic 2:12,13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

1. Habakkuk 2:6
2. Jer 9:10, 17-21; Micah 1:8
3. Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 24:3; Jeremiah 4:13
4. Jeremiah 6:12; Jeremiah 8:10
5. Num 34:13, 16-29; Deuteronomy 32:8; Joshua 18:4, 10
6. Isaiah 30:10; Amos 2:12; Amos 7:16
7. Isaiah 29:10; Micah 3:6
8. Micah 6:16
9. Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:1
10. Ps 119:65, 68, 116; Jeremiah 15:16
11. Psalms 15:2; Psalms 84:11
12. Jeremiah 12:8
13. Micah 3:2, 3; Micah 7:2, 3
14. Psalms 120:6, 7
15. Jeremiah 10:20
16. Ezekiel 39:21; Habakkuk 2:14
17. Deuteronomy 12:9
18. Psalms 106:38
19. Jeremiah 5:31
20. Isaiah 28:7
21. Isaiah 30:10, 11
22. Micah 4:6, 7
23. Micah 5:7, 8; Micah 7:18

Footnotes 11

[a]. Or "proverb"
[b]. Lit "lament"
[c]. Lit "casting"
[d]. Lit "flow"
[e]. Lit "flow"
[f]. I.e. God's prophets
[g]. Lit "flow"
[h]. Lit "And yesterday"
[i]. Or "ornaments"
[j]. Lit "flow"
[k]. Lit "one who flows" oracles