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Mic 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

shall		Num 23:7,18; Num 24:3,15; Job 27:1; Isa 14:4; Eze 16:44; Hab 2:6; Mar 12:12
and lament		2Sa 1:17; 2Ch 35:25; Jer 9:10,17-21; Jer 14:18; Joe 1:8,13; Amo 5:1,17
a doleful lamentation		Heb. a lamentation of lamentations. Lam 1-5; Eze 2:10
We		Deu 28:29; Isa 6:11; Isa 24:3; Jer 9:19; Jer 25:9-11; Zep 1:2
he hath changed		Mic 2:10; Mic 1:15; 2Ki 17:23,24; 2Ch 36:20,21; Isa 63:17,18
turning away he		or, instead of restoring, he, etc.

Correlating Passages

shall

	Num 23:7	And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
	Num 23:18	And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
	Num 24:3	And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
	Num 24:15	And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
	Job 27:1	Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
	Isa 14:4	That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
	Eze 16:44	Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.
	Hab 2:6	Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
	Mar 12:12	And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

and lament

	2Sa 1:17	And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
	2Ch 35:25	And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.
	Jer 9:10	For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
	Jer 9:17	Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:
	Jer 9:18	And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
	Jer 9:19	For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.
	Jer 9:20	Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
	Jer 9:21	For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
	Jer 14:18	If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
	Joe 1:8	Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
	Joe 1:13	Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
	Amo 5:1	Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel.
	Amo 5:17	And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

a doleful lamentation

	Lam 1:1	How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary!
	Lam 1:2	She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
	Lam 1:3	Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
	Lam 1:4	The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.
	Lam 1:5	Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
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	Eze 2:10	And he spread it before me; and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

	Deu 28:29	And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
	Isa 6:11	Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
	Isa 24:3	The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
	Jer 9:19	For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.
	Jer 25:9	Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
	Jer 25:10	Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
	Jer 25:11	And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
	Zep 1:2	I will utterly consume all [things] from off the land, saith the LORD.

he hath changed

	Mic 2:10	Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.
	Mic 1:15	Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
	2Ki 17:23	Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
	2Ki 17:24	And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
	2Ch 36:20	And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
	2Ch 36:21	To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
	Isa 63:17	O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
	Isa 63:18	The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

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Scott, Thomas. "Micah 2:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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