Micah 2:4 Cross References
Micah 2:4
4: In that day your enemies will make fun of you by singing this song of despair about your experience: "We are finished, completely ruined! God has confiscated our land, taking it from us. He has given our fields to those who betrayed us. "
Habakkuk 2:6
- But the time is coming when all their captives will taunt them, saying, `You thieves! At last justice has caught up with you! Now you will get what you deserve for your oppression and extortion!'
Jeremiah 9:17
- This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Think about what is going on! Call for the mourners to come.
- Quick! Begin your weeping! Let the tears flow from your eyes.
- Hear the people of Jerusalem crying in despair, `We are ruined! Disaster has come upon us! We must leave our land, because our homes have been torn down.'"
- Listen, you women, to the words of the LORD; open your ears to what he has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament.
- For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. It has killed off the flower of our youth: Children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares.
Deuteronomy 28:29
- You will grope around in broad daylight, just like a blind person groping in the darkness, and you will not succeed at anything you do. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.
Jeremiah 9:10
- I will weep for the mountains and wail for the desert pastures. For they are desolate and empty of life; the lowing of cattle is heard no more; the birds and wild animals all have fled.
Micah 1:15
- You people of Mareshah, I will bring a conqueror to capture your town. And the leaders of Israel will go to Adullam.
Isaiah 24:3
- The earth will be completely emptied and looted. The LORD has spoken!
Isaiah 6:11
- Then I said, "Lord, how long must I do this?" And he replied, "Until their cities are destroyed, with no one left in them. Until their houses are deserted and the whole country is an utter wasteland.
Numbers 23:7
- This was the prophecy Balaam delivered: "Balak summoned me to come from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills. `Come,' he said, `curse Jacob for me! Come and announce Israel's doom.'
Ezekiel 16:44
- Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, `Like mother, like daughter.'
Zephaniah 1:2
- "I will sweep away everything in all your land," says the LORD.
Joel 1:13
- Dress yourselves in sackcloth, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! There is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of your God.
Jeremiah 4:13
- Our enemy rushes down on us like a storm wind! His chariots are like whirlwinds; his horses are swifter than eagles. How terrible it will be! Our destruction is sure!
Numbers 24:3
- and this is the prophecy he delivered: "This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of the man whose eyes see clearly,
Micah 2:10
- Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.
Numbers 24:15
- This is the prophecy Balaam delivered: "This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of the man whose eyes see clearly,
2 Samuel 1:17
- Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan.
Numbers 23:18
- This was the prophecy Balaam delivered: "Rise up, Balak, and listen! Hear me, son of Zippor.
Isaiah 63:17
- LORD, why have you allowed us to turn from your path? Why have you given us stubborn hearts so we no longer fear you? Return and help us, for we are your servants and your special possession.
- How briefly your holy people possessed the holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.
Mark 12:12
- The Jewish leaders wanted to arrest him for using this illustration because they realized he was pointing at them--they were the wicked farmers in his story. But they were afraid to touch him because of the crowds. So they left him and went away.
2 Chronicles 36:20
- The few who survived were taken away to Babylon, and they became servants to the king and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- So the message of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The land finally enjoyed its Sabbath rest, lying desolate for seventy years, just as the prophet had said.
Joel 1:8
- Weep with sorrow, as a virgin weeps when her fiance has died.
Isaiah 14:4
- you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, "The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
Amos 5:17
- There will be wailing in every vineyard, for I will pass through and destroy them all. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
Job 27:1
- Job continued speaking:
Ezekiel 2:10
- He unrolled it, and I saw that both sides were covered with funeral songs, other words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom.
Lamentations 1:1
- Jerusalem's streets, once bustling with people, are now silent. Like a widow broken with grief, she sits alone in her mourning. Once the queen of nations, she is now a slave.
- She sobs through the night; tears stream down her cheeks. Among all her lovers, there is no one left to help her. All her friends have betrayed her; they are now her enemies.
- Judah has been led away into captivity, afflicted and enslaved. She lives among foreign nations and has no place of rest. Her enemies have chased her down, and she has nowhere to turn.
- The roads to Jerusalem are in mourning, no longer filled with crowds on their way to celebrate the Temple festivals. The city gates are silent, her priests groan, her young women are crying--how bitterly Jerusalem weeps!
- Her oppressors have become her masters, and her enemies prosper, for the LORD has punished Jerusalem for her many sins. Her children have been captured and taken away to distant lands.
Jeremiah 14:18
- If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, there I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they do not know what they are doing.'"
2 Chronicles 35:25
- The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.
2 Kings 17:23
- until the LORD finally swept them away, just as all his prophets had warned would happen. So Israel was carried off to the land of Assyria, where they remain to this day.
- And the king of Assyria transported groups of people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and resettled them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the people of Israel. So the Assyrians took over Samaria and the other towns of Israel.
Jeremiah 25:9
- I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the other nations near you. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever.
- I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your businesses will fail, and all your homes will stand silent and dark.
- This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Amos 5:1
- Listen, you people of Israel! Listen to this funeral song I am singing: