Micah 2:8
Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
KJV
et e contrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit. Desuper tunica pallium sustulistis : et eos qui transibant simpliciter convertistis in bellum.
Vulgate
καὶ ἔμπροσθεν ὁ λαός μου εἰς ἔχθραν ἀντέστη· κατὲναντι τῆς εἰρήνης αὐτοῦ τὴν δορὰν αὐτοῦ ἐξέδειραν, τοῦ ἀφελέσθαι ἐλπίδα συντριμμὸν πολέμου.
LXX
But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
ASV
וְ/אֶתְמ֗וּל עַמִּ/י֙ לְ/אוֹיֵ֣ב יְקוֹמֵ֔ם מִ/מּ֣וּל שַׂלְמָ֔ה אֶ֖דֶר תַּפְשִׁט֑וּ/ן מֵ/עֹבְרִ֣ים בֶּ֔טַח שׁוּבֵ֖י מִלְחָמָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 20:19 — I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
- Jer 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Ps 101:8 — I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
- Ps 120:6 — My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.