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Micah 2:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4In 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse voices a taunt-lament over ruined status, changed portion, and divided fields.
Read It With
- Micah 2:1-5
Read Micah 2:4 with 2:1-5. This verse voices a taunt-lament over ruined status, changed portion, and divided fields. The complete unit establishes this movement: Elites turn nighttime desire into morning dispossession because power is available; the LORD answers their seizure of inherited land with loss of their own standing and allotment.
Why It Needs Context
This verse voices a taunt-lament over ruined status, changed portion, and divided fields. That contribution depends on Micah 2:1-5; isolated teaching would detach this line from the complete poetic movement.
Read Micah 2:1–5 together
Why these verses belong together: Planned seizure, household oppression, divinely planned reversal, lament, and lost allotment explain one another.
Verse 1. 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Verse 2. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Verse 3. 3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Verse 4. 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.
Verse 5. 5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Micah 2:1-5 — Power Seizes Fields and Loses the InheritanceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
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Exact location: Micah 2:1-5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah
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