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Micah 2:9
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You force the women of my peopleout of their comfortable homes,and you take my blessingfrom their children forever.
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; From their young children you take away my blessing forever.
The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, from their children haue ye taken away my glory for euer.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
"You evict the women of My people, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.
You've forced the women of my people from their nice houses; you've taken my glory from their children forever.
"You evict the women (widows) of My people, Each one from her pleasant house; From her [young, fatherless] children you take away My splendor and blessing forever [by putting them among the pagans, away from Me].
The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their childre haue ye taken away my glorie continually.
"The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.
The women of My people you drive out,Each one from her pleasant house.From her infants you take My splendor forever.
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
You take over lovely homes that belong to the women of my nation. Then you cheat their children out of the inheritance that comes from the Lord .
You throw my people's women out of the homes they love. You deprive their children of my glory forever.
The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.
You have taken nice houses away from the women of my people. You have taken my wealth away from their small children forever.
The women of my people you have driven out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away the glory for ever.
You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever.
You have driven out the women of my people from the houses of their pleasure. From their children you have taken away my glory forever.
You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; you have taken away My majesty forever from her children.
The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.
The women of My people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away My glory for ever.
The women of my people haue ye shut out from their pleasaunt houses, and taken away myne excellent giftes from their children.
The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw ye near to the everlasting mountains.
The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; From their young children you take away my blessing forever.
Ye castiden the wymmen of my puple out of the hous of her delices; fro the litle children of hem ye token awei myn heriyng with outen ende.
The women of my people you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
The women of My people you cast out From their pleasant houses; From their children You have taken away My glory forever.
You have evicted women from their pleasant homes and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
You drive the women of My people away from their beautiful houses. You take My greatness away from their children forever.
The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.
The wives of my people, ye do even drive out, each from the house of her darlings, - from over her children, ye do take away mine ornament, as long as life shall last.
You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their children.
The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.
the women off my people haue ye shot out fro their good houses, and taken awaye my excellent giftes from their children.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
women: or, wives
cast: Micah 2:2, Matthew 23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47
from their children: 1 Samuel 26:19, Joel 3:6
my glory: Psalms 72:19, Ezekiel 39:21, Habakkuk 2:14, Zechariah 2:5, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:6
Reciprocal: Job 20:19 - he hath violently Psalms 102:16 - he shall Proverbs 10:30 - the wicked Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 45:9 - exactions Amos 2:7 - pant
Cross-References
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.
"It will be a set-right and put-together life for us if we make sure that we do this entire commandment in the Presence of God , our God, just as he commanded us to do."
A good life is a fruit-bearing tree; a violent life destroys souls.
He makes the magicians look ridiculous and turns fortunetellers into jokes. He makes the experts look trivial and their latest knowledge look silly. But he backs the word of his servant and confirms the counsel of his messengers. He says to Jerusalem, "Be inhabited," and to the cities of Judah, "Be rebuilt," and to the ruins, "I raise you up." He says to Ocean, "Dry up. I'm drying up your rivers." He says to Cyrus, "My shepherd— everything I want, you'll do it." He says to Jerusalem, "Be built," and to the Temple, "Be established."
"‘Which of the trees of Eden came anywhere close to you in splendor and size? But you're slated to be cut down to take your place in the underworld with the trees of Eden, to be a dead log stacked with all the other dead logs, among the other uncircumcised who are dead and buried. "‘This means Pharaoh, the pompous old goat. "‘Decree of God , the Master.'"
"But the river itself, on both banks, will grow fruit trees of all kinds. Their leaves won't wither, the fruit won't fail. Every month they'll bear fresh fruit because the river from the Sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."
The question keeps coming up regarding meat that has been offered up to an idol: Should you attend meals where such meat is served, or not? We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions—but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.
"Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches. I'm about to call each conqueror to dinner. I'm spreading a banquet of Tree-of-Life fruit, a supper plucked from God's orchard."
"How blessed are those who wash their robes! The Tree of Life is theirs for good, and they'll walk through the gates to the City. But outside for good are the filthy curs: sorcerers, fornicators, murderers, idolaters—all who love and live lies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses,.... Not content to slay their husbands, they took their wives or widows captive, dispossessed them of their habitations, where they had lived delightfully with their husbands and children; so we find that, at the time before referred to, the people of Israel carried captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, and brought them to Samaria, 2 Chronicles 28:8. Some understand this of divorce, which those men were the cause of, either by committing adultery with them, which was a just reason for their husband's divorcing them; or by frequenting their houses, which caused suspicion and jealousy:
from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever; that which God would have had glory from, and they would have given it to him on account of; as their being brought up in a religious way; their liberties, both civil and religious; their paternal estates and inheritances, and the enjoyment of their own land; and especially the worship of God in the temple, of which they were deprived by being carried away from their own country: or it may be understood of the glory that accrues to God by honourable marriage, and the bed undefiled; and the dishonour cast upon him by the contrary, as well as upon children, who may be suspected to be illegitimate.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses - (literally, from her pleasant house,) each from her home. These were probably the widows of those whom they had stripped. Since the houses were their’s, they were widows; and so their spoilers were at war with those whom God had committed to their special love, whom He had declared the objects of His own tender care, “the widows and the fatherless.” The widows they “drove vehemently forth”, as having no portion in the inheritance which God had given them, as God had driven out their enemies before them, each “from her pleasant house,” the home where she had lived with her husband and children in delight and joy.
From (off) their (young) children have ye taken away My glory - Primarily, the glory, comeliness, was the fitting apparel which God had given them (as Hosea 2:11), and laid upon them , and which these oppressors stripped off from them. But it includes all the gifts of God, wherewith God would array them. Instead of the holy home of parental care, the children grew up in want and neglect, away from all the ordinances of God, it may be, in a strange land. “For ever.” They never repented, never made restitution; but so they incurred the special woe of those who ill-used the unprotected, the widow, and the fatherless. The words “forever” anticipate the punishment. The punishment is according to the sin. They never ceased their oppression. They, with the generation who should come after them, should be deprived of God’s “glory,” and cast out of His land forever.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. The women of my people — Ye are the cause of the women and their children being carried into captivity-separated from their pleasant habitations, and from my temple and ordinances-and from the blessings of the covenant, which it is my glory to give, and theirs to receive. These two verses may probably relate to the war made on Ahaz by Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel. They fell suddenly upon the Jews; killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand, and took two hundred thousand captive; and carried away much spoil. Thus, they rose up against them as enemies, when there was peace between the two kingdoms; spoiled them of their goods, carried away men, women, and children, till, at the remonstrances of the prophet Oded, they were released. See 2 Chronicles 28:6, &c. Micah lived in the days of Ahaz, and might have seen the barbarities which he here describes.
