Miquéas 2:9

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Lanastes fora as mulheres do meu povo, da casa das suas delcias; dos seus meninos tirastes o meu louvor para sempre.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Lanastes fora as mulheres do meu povo, da casa das suas delcias; das suas crianas tirastes para sempre a minha glria.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Lanais fora as mulheres de meu povo do seu lar querido; dos filhinhos delas tirais a minha glria, para sempre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

women: or, wives

cast: Micah 2:2, Matthew 23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47

from their children: 1 Samuel 26:19, Joel 3:6

my glory: Psalms 72:19, Ezekiel 39:21, Habakkuk 2:14, Zechariah 2:5, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:6

Reciprocal: Job 20:19 - he hath violently Psalms 102:16 - he shall Proverbs 10:30 - the wicked Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 45:9 - exactions Amos 2:7 - pant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses,.... Not content to slay their husbands, they took their wives or widows captive, dispossessed them of their habitations, where they had lived delightfully with their husbands and children; so we find that, at the time before referred to, the people of Israel carried captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women, and brought them to Samaria, 2 Chronicles 28:8. Some understand this of divorce, which those men were the cause of, either by committing adultery with them, which was a just reason for their husband's divorcing them; or by frequenting their houses, which caused suspicion and jealousy:

from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever; that which God would have had glory from, and they would have given it to him on account of; as their being brought up in a religious way; their liberties, both civil and religious; their paternal estates and inheritances, and the enjoyment of their own land; and especially the worship of God in the temple, of which they were deprived by being carried away from their own country: or it may be understood of the glory that accrues to God by honourable marriage, and the bed undefiled; and the dishonour cast upon him by the contrary, as well as upon children, who may be suspected to be illegitimate.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses - (literally, from her pleasant house,) each from her home. These were probably the widows of those whom they had stripped. Since the houses were their’s, they were widows; and so their spoilers were at war with those whom God had committed to their special love, whom He had declared the objects of His own tender care, “the widows and the fatherless.” The widows they “drove vehemently forth”, as having no portion in the inheritance which God had given them, as God had driven out their enemies before them, each “from her pleasant house,” the home where she had lived with her husband and children in delight and joy.

From (off) their (young) children have ye taken away My glory - Primarily, the glory, comeliness, was the fitting apparel which God had given them (as Hosea 2:11), and laid upon them , and which these oppressors stripped off from them. But it includes all the gifts of God, wherewith God would array them. Instead of the holy home of parental care, the children grew up in want and neglect, away from all the ordinances of God, it may be, in a strange land. “For ever.” They never repented, never made restitution; but so they incurred the special woe of those who ill-used the unprotected, the widow, and the fatherless. The words “forever” anticipate the punishment. The punishment is according to the sin. They never ceased their oppression. They, with the generation who should come after them, should be deprived of God’s “glory,” and cast out of His land forever.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. The women of my people — Ye are the cause of the women and their children being carried into captivity-separated from their pleasant habitations, and from my temple and ordinances-and from the blessings of the covenant, which it is my glory to give, and theirs to receive. These two verses may probably relate to the war made on Ahaz by Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, king of Israel. They fell suddenly upon the Jews; killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand, and took two hundred thousand captive; and carried away much spoil. Thus, they rose up against them as enemies, when there was peace between the two kingdoms; spoiled them of their goods, carried away men, women, and children, till, at the remonstrances of the prophet Oded, they were released. See 2 Chronicles 28:6, &c. Micah lived in the days of Ahaz, and might have seen the barbarities which he here describes.