Micah 2:3-5

New International Version

³Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster^(A) against this people,
    from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,^(B)
    for it will be a time of calamity.
⁴In that day people will ridicule you;
    they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;^(C)
    my people’s possession is divided up.^(D)
He takes it from me!
    He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

⁵Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
to divide the land^(E) by lot.^(F)

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Micah 2:3-5

International Standard Version

³“Therefore this is what the Lord says,
‘I’m crafting evil against this family,
    from which you can’t escape.^[a]
You won’t strut around arrogantly,
    because the times are evil.’
⁴“When this happens,^[b] someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully,
    ‘We are completely ruined!
        He has given my people’s heritage to others.^[c]
    How he has removed it from me,
        dividing up our fields!’
⁵“This is why there will not be left even a single person
    to settle boundary disputes^[d] in the Lord’s community.

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Footnotes

Micah 2:3 Lit. can’t remove your necks
Micah 2:4 Lit. In that day
Micah 2:4 The Heb. lacks to others
Micah 2:5 Lit. to stretch out a measuring line

Micah 2:3-5

King James Version

³Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

⁴In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

⁵Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.

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