KJV King James Version
Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
WEB World English Bible
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
ASV American Standard Version
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Rise and go, for this is not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.
Surrounding context — Micah 2
7 O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
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.
9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
10 Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.
11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, [saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.
13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
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ק֣וּמוּH6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamaiוּלְכ֔וּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentכִּ֥יH3588 · kiforלֹא־H3808 · lonotזֹ֖אתH2063 · zotthisהַמְּנוּחָ֑הH4496 · me.nu.chahNohahבַּעֲב֥וּרH5668 · a.vurfor the sake ofטָמְאָ֛הH2930 · ta.meto defileתְּחַבֵּ֖לH2254 · cha.valto pledgeוְחֶ֥בֶלH2256 · che.velMahalabנִמְרָֽץ׃H4834 · ma.ratsbe sick
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 12:9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.Psalm 106:38And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.Hebrews 4:1-9Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.1 Kings 9:7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.Joshua 23:15-16Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.Leviticus 20:22-26Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.Deuteronomy 30:18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.Ezekiel 36:12-14Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, [even] my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them [of men].2 Chronicles 7:20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.Jeremiah 10:18For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so].Psalm 95:11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.2 Chronicles 36:20-21And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.Leviticus 18:24-28Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
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