Mica 2:9

9 die Weiber meines Volkes vertreibet ihr aus dem Hause ihrer Wonne, von ihren Kindern nehmet ihr meinen Schmuck auf immer. -

Mica 2:9 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 2:9

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant
houses
Not content to slay their husbands, they took their wives or widows captive, dispossessed them of their habitations, where they had lived delightfully with their husbands and children; so we find that, at the time before referred to, the people of Israel carried captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, and brought them to Samaria, ( 2 Chronicles 28:8 ) . Some understand this of divorce, which those men were the cause of, either by committing adultery with them, which was a just reason for their husband's divorcing them; or by frequenting their houses, which caused suspicion and jealousy: from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever;
that which God would have had glory from, and they would have given it to him on account of; as their being brought up in a religious way; their liberties, both civil and religious; their paternal estates and inheritances, and the enjoyment of their own land; and especially the worship of God in the temple, of which they were deprived by being carried away from their own country: or it may be understood of the glory that accrues to God by honourable marriage, and the bed undefiled; and the dishonour cast upon him by the contrary, as well as upon children, who may be suspected to be illegitimate.

Mica 2:9 In-Context

7 Du, Haus Jakob genannt, ist Jehova ungeduldig? Oder sind dies seine Taten? Sind meine Worte nicht gütig gegen den, der aufrichtig wandelt?

8 Aber noch unlängst lehnte sich mein Volk als Feind auf: vom Oberkleide ziehet ihr den Mantel denen ab, die sorglos vorübergehen, vom Kriege abgewandt sind;

9 die Weiber meines Volkes vertreibet ihr aus dem Hause ihrer Wonne, von ihren Kindern nehmet ihr meinen Schmuck auf immer. -

10 Machet euch auf und ziehet hin! Denn dieses Land ist der Ruheort nicht, um der Verunreinigung willen, die Verderben bringt, und zwar gewaltiges Verderben.

11 Wenn ein Mann da ist, der dem Winde nachgeht und betrügerisch lügt: "Ich will dir weissagen von Wein und von starkem Getränk", der wird ein Prophet dieses Volkes sein.