Self-interpreting Bible
Micah 2
1God's judgment against oppression. 4A lamentation for the removal of his people. 7A reproof for their injustice and delight in false prophets. 12A promise of restoration.
1 WOE to them that adevise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because bit is in the power of their hand.
2 And cthey covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they 1oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; dBehold, against this efamily do I devise an evil, ffrom which ye shall not remove your necks; gneither shall ye go haughtily: for hthis time is evil.
- d: Ps. 18:26 , Mat. 7:2 , Ja. 2:13 , Ps. 50:21 , Ps. 50:22 , Je. 18:11 , Je. 14:15
- e: Je. 1:15 , Je. 8:3 , Je. 10:23 , Am. 3:2
- f: Is. 24:17 , Is. 24:18 , Je. 48:44 , Am. 2:14 - 16 , Am. 9:1 - 4 , Zep. 1:14 - 18
- g: Job 40:11 , Job 40:12 , Is. 2:11 - 17 , Is. 47:1
- h: Eze. 7:5 , Am. 5:13 , Am. 8:2 , Am. 8:3 , Zep. 1:14 , Zep. 1:18
4 ¶In that day shall one take up ia parable against you, and lament 2with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: jhe hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! 3turning away he hath divided our fields.
- i: Job 27:1 , Eze. 20:49 , Hab. 2:6 , Jn. 16:25 , Jn. 16:29 , Ps. 44:14 , Je. 24:9 , Is. 14:4 , Nu. 21:27
- 2: Heb. with a lamentationof lamentations, Am. 5.7,16. Je. 9.17,18. , Am. 5:7 , Am. 5:16 , Je. 9:17 , Je. 9:18
- j: Mi. 2:10 , Am. 5:27 , Am. 7:9 , Am. 7:11 , Am. 7:17 , 2Ki. 17:23 , 2Ki. 17:24 , Mi. 1:15
- 3: Or, instead of restoring.
5 Therefore kthou shalt have none that shall lcast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
6 m4Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: nthey shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
7 ¶O thou that art onamed the house of Jacob, pis the spirit of the LORD 5*straitened? are these his doings? qdo not my words do good to him that walketh 6uprightly?
8 rEven 7of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe 8with the garment from them that pass by *securely as men averse from war.
- r: Is. 9:21 , 2Ki. 12:20 , 2Ki. 14:13 , 2Ch. 28:5 - 8
- 7: Heb. yesterday.
- 8: Heb. over against a garment.
- *: securely-free from anxiety.
9 The 9women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
10 sArise ye, and depart; for this is not tyour rest: ubecause it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a *sore destruction.
11 vIf a man 10walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; whe shall even be the prophet of this people.
- v: 1Ki. 22:21 , 1Ki. 22:13 , Eze. 13:3 - 22 , Je. 6:13 , Je. 6:14 , Je. 8:10 , Je. 8:11 , Je. 14:13 , Je. 14:14 , Phi. 3:18 , Phi. 3:19 , Ro. 16:18
- 10: Or, walk with the wind, and lie falsely.
- w: Je. 5:31
12 ¶I xwill surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; yI will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall zmake great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
- x: Mi. 4:6 , Mi. 4:7 , Zep. 3:19 , Is. 11:11 , Is. 27:12 , Is. 27:13 , Je. 3:18 , Je. 23:3 , Je. 31:8 - 13 , Ho. 1:10 , Ho. 1:11 , Ho. 3:5 , Ho. 14:4 - 8 , Ro. 11:26
- y: Is. 43:6 , Is. 49:12 - 23 , Is. 60:1 - 22 , Eze. 34:11 - 31 , Ezekiel 36 , Ezekiel 37 , Eze. 39:25 - 28 , 1Ch. 1:44
- z: Zec. 9:15 , Zec. 10:7 , Zec. 10:8 , Zec. 8:19 - 23 , Zec. 2:4 , Zec. 2:11 , Ho. 1:10
13 The abreaker is come up before them: bthey have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and ctheir king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
- a: Zec. 12:8 , Is. 57:14 , Is. 62:10 , Is. 42:16 , Is. 49:10 , Is. 49:11 , Da. 2:34 , Da. 2:35 , Da. 2:44
- b: Eze. 20:37 , Zec. 9:14 - 16 , Zec. 10:5 , Zec. 10:12 , Zec. 12:1 - 8
- c: Is. 52:12 , Is. 9:6 , Is. 9:7 , Is. 49:10 , Is. 49:11 , Je. 23:5 , Je. 23:6 , Eze. 34:23 , Eze. 34:24 , Ho. 1:11 , Ho. 3:5 , Re. 17:14 , Re. 19:6 , Re. 19:7 , Re. 19:11 - 14