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When that time comes, people will use the story about you as an example of disaster, and they will sing this song of despair about your experience:

We are completely ruined!
The Lord has taken our land away
And given it to those who took us captive.”[a]

So then, when the time comes for the land to be given back to the Lord's people, there will be no share for any of you.

The people preach at me and say, “Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:4 Probable text those who took us captive; Hebrew rebels.

In that day people will ridicule you;
    they will taunt you with this mournful song:
‘We are utterly ruined;(A)
    my people’s possession is divided up.(B)
He takes it from me!
    He assigns our fields to traitors.’”

Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
    to divide the land(C) by lot.(D)

False Prophets

“Do not prophesy,” their prophets say.
    “Do not prophesy about these things;
    disgrace(E) will not overtake us.(F)

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