Micah 2:4
“In 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.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The oppressors will become the subject of a mocking lament, crying that their own portion has been taken and their fields divided among others.
What Does Micah 2:4 Mean?
Those who seized others' fields will hear a bitter song sung about them. 'We are utterly ruined,' they will wail, for their own portion has been changed and their fields handed to others. The taunt turns their crime back upon their heads.
The measure they used is measured back to them, field for field. What they took by violence is taken from them by judgment. The verse warns that injustice carries a hidden boomerang; what we sow into others' lives returns to our own. Only repentance can break that grim cycle and open the way to mercy.