Micah 2:5

"In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”"

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that in coming judgment, those who have wronged the community will face dire consequences, symbolized by the loss of their possessions and lands being given to untrustworthy individuals. The lamentation reflects not just material loss but also a deep spiritual and communal collapse.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall east a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord -Thou, in the first instance, is the impenitent Jew of that day. God had promised by Hosea to restore Judah; shortly after, the prophet himself foretells itMicah 2:12. Now he forewarns these and such as these, that they would have no portion in it. They had “neither part nor lot in this matter”Acts 8:21. They, the not-Israel then, were the images and ensamples of the not-Israel afterward, those who seem to be God’s people and are not; members of the body, not of the soul of the Church; who have a sort of faith, but have not love.

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