Micah 2:5 {4}
Good News Translation
So then, when the time comes for the land to be given back to the LORD's people, there will be no share for any of you.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
And so you will never again own property among the LORD's people.

New American Bible
Thus you shall have no one in the assembly of the LORD to allot to you a share of land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

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In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

cast.

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

Joshua 18:4,10 Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out. . . .

Psalm 16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

the congregation.

Deuteronomy 23:2,8 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation. . . .

Nehemiah 7:61 And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

Context
Woe to the Oppressors
4Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time. 5In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
Cross References
Numbers 34:13
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

Numbers 34:16
And the Lord said to Moses:

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

Joshua 18:4
Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.

Joshua 18:10
And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

Micah 2:4
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