Micah 2:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.

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  • Ps 120:6-7 : 6 My soul has had her dwelling too long With him who hates peace. 7 I am for peace, But when I speak, they are for war.
  • Isa 9:21 : 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • 2 Sam 20:19 : 19 I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?
  • 2 Chr 28:5-8 : 5 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king. 8 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
  • Ps 55:20 : 20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

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    9You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; From their young children you take away my blessing forever.

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  • Mic 2:2-4
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    2They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.

    3Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, From which you will not remove your necks, Neither will you walk haughtily; For it is an evil time.

    4In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • Lam 2:21-22
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    21The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

    22You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.

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    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

  • Mic 3:2-3
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    2You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones;

    3Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.

  • Jer 6:25-27
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    25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

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    7Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

    8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

  • Nah 2:1-2
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    1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily!

    2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

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  • Lam 2:5
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    5The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Isa 3:15
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    15What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

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    10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

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    17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.

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    5The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.

    6Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, And let this ruin be under your hand."

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    11They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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    22Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

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    2to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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    25Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.

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    12to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

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    29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Isa 2:5-6
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    5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

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    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.

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    13Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

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    13On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

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    7Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.

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    16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.