Parallel Verses
Amplified
“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].
New American Standard Bible
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her children you take My
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.
Holman Bible
out of their comfortable homes,
and you take My blessing
from their children forever.
International Standard Version
You have evicted the wives of my people from their dream homes; you have removed my majesty from their children permanently.
A Conservative Version
Ye cast out the women of my people from their pleasant houses. Ye take away my glory from their young sons 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.
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
The women of my people ye will thrust out from the house of her delights; from her children ye will take my majesty forever.
King James 2000
The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
the women of my people have ye shot out from their good houses, and taken away my excellent gifts from their children.
NET Bible
You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
New Heart English Bible
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
The Emphasized Bible
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.
Webster
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Divorce » Often sought by the jews
Micah » One of the minor prophets » The oppressions of the covetous
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Word Rejected
8
“But lately My people have stood up as an enemy [and have made Me their antagonist].
You strip the ornaments off the garment
Of those unsuspecting passers-by,
Like those returned from war.
“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].
“Arise and depart [because the captivity is inevitable],
For this [land] is not the place of rest
Because of the defilement that brings destruction,
A painful and terrible destruction.
Cross References
Ezekiel 39:21
“And I will bring [and manifest] My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment and justice [in the punishment] which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.
Habakkuk 2:14
“But [the time is coming when] the earth shall be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, let Him accept an offering [from me]; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, because they have driven me out this day to keep me from sharing in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
Psalm 72:19
Blessed be His glorious name forever;
And may the whole earth be filled with His glory.
Amen and Amen.
Jeremiah 10:20
My tent is destroyed,
And all my [tent] cords are broken;
My children have been taken from me [as captives] and are no more.
There is no one to stretch out my tent again
And to set up my [tent] curtains.
Joel 3:6
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you may send them far away from their territory,
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They oppress and rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
Zechariah 2:5
For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her [protecting her from enemies], and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
Matthew 23:13
Mark 12:40
[these scribes]
Luke 20:47
2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit. Cross references: 2 Corinthians 3:3 : Ex 24:12; 31:18; 32:15, 16; Jer 31:33 2 Corinthians 3:6 : Jer 31:31 2 Corinthians 3:7 : Ex 34:29-35 2 Corinthians 3:17 : Is 61:1, 2 end of crossrefs
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory and majesty of God [clearly revealed] in the face of Christ.