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Micah 2:9

Micah 2:9 is verse 9 of Micah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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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.

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Micah 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

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

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

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

11 If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Micah 2:2

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

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

Luke 20:47

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

1 Samuel 26:19

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 today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

Joel 3:6

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

Psalms 72:19

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

Ezekiel 39:21

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

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

Zechariah 2:5

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

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

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.

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