Micah 2:10
“Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Because the land has been defiled by sin, it can no longer be a place of rest, and its people must depart.
What Does Micah 2:10 Mean?
The verdict comes: 'Arise and depart.' The land that was meant to be a place of rest has been polluted by injustice, and defilement breeds destruction. The very ground they trusted can no longer hold them.
Sin poisons the home it inhabits; a place corrupted cannot give peace. The loss of rest is the bitter fruit of unfaithfulness. Yet the call to depart hints that true rest was never finally in a plot of land, but in the Lord Himself, who alone gives the rest that defilement cannot spoil.
In the Original Language
menuchah (מְנוּחָה), 'rest' -- a settled place of peace and security, more than mere ceasing from labor.