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“When this happens,[a] someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully,
    ‘We are completely ruined!
        He has given my people’s heritage to others.[b]
    How he has removed it from me,
        dividing up our fields!’
“This is why there will not be left even a single person
    to settle boundary disputes[c] in the Lord’s community.
To those who speak out, they will declare,
    ‘Don’t prophesy to anyone!’
        so their shame won’t go away.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 2:4 Lit. In that day
  2. Micah 2:4 The Heb. lacks to others
  3. Micah 2:5 Lit. to stretch out a measuring line