Micah 2:9 “You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take a…”

Micah 2:9

You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.

Geneva Bible 1599

The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their childre haue ye taken away my glorie continually.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“cast”

Luke 20:47 Micah 2:2 Mark 12:40 Matthew 23:14

Luke 20:47 · BSB

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

Micah 2:2 · BSB

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Mark 12:40 · BSB

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

“from their children”

1 Samuel 26:19 Joel 3:6

1 Samuel 26:19 · BSB

Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For toda…

Joel 3:6 · BSB

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

“my glory”

Ezekiel 39:21 Habakkuk 2:14 Psalm 72:19 Zechariah 2:5 2 Corinthians 3:18 2 Corinthians 4:6

Ezekiel 39:21 · BSB

I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.

Habakkuk 2:14 · BSB

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

Psalm 72:19 · BSB

And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

Zechariah 2:5 · BSB

For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

2 Corinthians 3:18 · BSB

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6 · BSB

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Also

Matthew 23:13 Jeremiah 10:20

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Jeremiah 10:20 · BSB

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!

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