But lately (A)my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
    with no thought of war.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:8 Or returning from war

Too long have I had my dwelling
    among those who hate peace.
(A)I am for peace,
    but when I speak, they are for war!

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19 I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you (A)swallow up (B)the heritage of the Lord?”

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21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
    together they are (A)against Judah.
(B)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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20 My companion[a] (A)stretched out his hand against his friends;
    he violated his covenant.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:20 Hebrew He

Judah Defeated

(A)Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. For (B)Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.

The men of Israel took captive 200,000 (C)of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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