Micah 2:5 Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

English Standard Version
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

King James Bible
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, there will be no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by casting lots."

International Standard Version
"This is why there will not be left even a single person to settle boundary disputes in the LORD's community.

American Standard Version
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.

Cross References

Numbers 34:13
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

Numbers 34:16
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Joshua 18:4
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

Joshua 18:10
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It is of great moment to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a proper manner. If covetousness reigns in the heart, compassion is banished; and when the heart is thus engaged, violence and fraud commonly occupy the hands. The most haughty and secure in prosperity, are commonly most ready to despair in adversity. Woe to those from whom God turns away! Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregation of the Lord, or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. Therefore—resumed from Mic 2:3. On account of your crimes described in Mic 2:1, 2.

thou—the ideal individual ("me," Mic 2:4), representing the guilty people in whose name he spoke.

none that … cast a cord by lot—none who shall have any possession measured out.

in the congregation of the Lord—among the people consecrated to Jehovah. By covetousness and violence (Mic 2:2) they had forfeited "the portion of Jehovah's people." This is God's implied answer to their complaint of injustice (Mic 2:4).