Shall one take up a parable against you — i.e., the enemies shall repeat in mockery the doleful lamentations with which you bewail your pitiable state.
Turning away he hath divided. — Rather, to an apostate — i.e., an idolater — he hath divided our fields. The land they were taking from others God would give into the hands of an idolatrous king.
Verse Micah 2:4. _TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST YOU_] Your wickedness and your punishment shall be subjects of common conversation; and a _funeral_ _dirge_ shall be composed and sung for you as for the _...
IN THAT DAY SHALL ONE TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST YOU - The mashal or likeness may, in itself, be any speech in which one thing is likened to another: 1) “figured speech,” 2) “proverb,” and, since suc...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The guilt and punishment of Israel (Micah 2:1) _ 2. The future restoration (Micah 2:12) Micah 2:1. In the first two verses the special sins of Israel are mentioned, the same as in Amo...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND ITS PENALTY. The prophet denounces those for whom might is right (Psalms 36:4; and work evil seems a thoughtless scribal addition), who acquire property by illegal or inequitable...
TAKE UP. PARABLE. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:18; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15;...
_shall one take up a parable_ Or, A TAUNTING SONG (as probably Isaiah 14:4; Habakkuk 2:6). The Hebr. _mâshâl_means properly a saying characterized by parallelism -the parallelism may consist either in...
_RUINED BECAUSE OF CONTINUAL SIN -- MICAH 2:4-5:_ A lack of repentance brought God's most severe judgment against Israel. When that day of judgment arrived it would be a sorrowful day. Sad songs would...
HE HATH CHANGED THE PORTION— _He hath alienated,_ or _transferred the portion of my people. How hath he departed from me, to bring again him who divided our fields!_ But Houbigant renders it, _The pat...
A TAUNT AGAINST THE WICKED. Micah 2:4-5 RV. 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 p...
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! t...
THE SINS THAT BRING RUIN Micah 2:3, as dealing with the same subject, should be read together. Micah now enumerates the sins which must bring punishment on Judah. He inveighs bitterly against the rap...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-11 EVIL LEADERS AND FALSE *PROPHETS WILL SUFFER v1 Trouble will come to people that plot evil things. Those...
The strong, rich people in *Israel were thieves. They had taken the fields from the poor people. Now, people that are stronger than the rich people will take those rich people’s fields. The poor peopl...
בַּ † יֹּ֨ום הַ ה֜וּא יִשָּׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם...
THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his grief for Je...
THE HARVEST OF GREED AND INJUSTICE Micah 2:1-13 Micah 1:1-16 dealt with sins against the _first_ table of the law; this deals with those against the _second_. Evil must sooner or later befall those w...
Following this the prophet states the cause of the imminent judgment. The sin consists in devising evil at night and practicing it in the morning, and the abuse of authority. Covetousness, expressing...
In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, (b) We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed [it] f...
Say. The Israelites sing this mournful canticle to ver. 7., which the prophet composes for them, to shew the certainty of the event. It is very difficult. (Calmet) --- The whole synagogue speaks. (Men...
When we consider the Lord's dealings with Israel, we cannot sufficiently lament their depravity. Other nations of the earth, which knew not the Lord, we behold with a different aspect to that of the s...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
The verse is in broken sentences; and hence interpreters vary. But the meaning of the Prophet appears to me to be simply this, _In that day they shall take up a proverb against you; _that is, it will...
In chapter 2 the prophet points out the moral causes of the judgment of God-violence and shameless oppression. They formed plans of violence to gratify their covetousness, and Jehovah formed also plan...
IN THAT DAY SHALL [ONE] TAKE UP A PARABLE AGAINST YOU,.... Making use of your name, as a byword, a proverb, a taunt, and a jeer; mocking at your calamities and miseries: or, "concerning you" c; take u...
_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...
_In that day shall one take up a parable_ Shall use a figurative speech, _against you_ A parable signifies a speech out of the ordinary way, as the Greek word παροιμια imports, and illustrated with me...
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, the enemies inventing bywords and mocking jingles, AND LAMENT WITH A DOLEFUL LAMENTATION, for the mocking song of the enemies would be a mournful d...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PREVALENT EVILS...
A DOLEFUL LAMENTATION: _ Heb._ with a lamentation of lamentations TURNING AWAY HE HATH DIVIDED: Or, instead of restoring...
1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It i...
IN THAT DAY; when God shall retaliate, as MICAH 2:3, when he shall by the Assyrian captivity fulfil what hero is threatened by the prophet. SHALL ONE TAKE UP; there shall be taken up, or be in common...
Micah 2:4 day H3117 up H5375 (H8799) proverb H4912 lament H5091 (H8804) bitter H5093 lamentation H5092 saying...
THE SINS WHICH HAVE BROUGHT JUDAH'S CALAMITY ON IT (MICAH 2:1). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapter are st...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel, continued. Future deliverance of a remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land which they have polluted by the...
Micah 2:1. _Woe to them that devise iniquity they covet fields, and take them by violence._ The jubilee was the happiest law that ever favoured a nation; but the rabbins confess that before the captiv...
_And they covet fields, and take them by violence _ AVARICE Greed is the spring and spirit of all oppression. Here rapacious avarice is presented in three aspects. I. Scheming in the night. When a...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:4 TAUNT SONG. These oppressors had seized property from the defenseless (vv. Micah 2:1). Now the APOSTATE (the Assyrians?) will sei
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:3. FAMILY] Nation. DEVISE] Cf. Micah 2:1, “to set clearly before our eyes the _jus talionis_ prevalent in God’s providence” (Exodus 21:23;...
EXPOSITION MICAH 2:1 § 6. _The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty._ MICAH 2:1 The prophet, himself one of the people, first inveighs against the si...
Now God is giving here His continued indictment against Israel and He said, Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it ha...
2 Chronicles 35:25; 2 Chronicles 36:20; 2 Chronicles 36:21; 2 Kings 17:23;...
A parable — A taunting proverb. And lament — Your friends for you, and you for yourselves. He — God. Portion — Their wealth, plenty, freedom, joy and honour, into poverty, famine, servitude, grief and...