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We Are Utterly Ruined”: Syntax of Satire and Loss in Micah 2:4
בַּיֹּ֨ום הַה֜וּא יִשָּׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם מָשָׁ֗ל וְנָהָ֨ה נְהִי נִֽהְיָה֙ אָמַר֙ שָׁדֹ֣וד נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּ חֵ֥לֶק עַמִּ֖י יָמִ֑יר אֵ֚יךְ יָמִ֣ישׁ לִ֔י לְשֹׁובֵ֥ב שָׂדֵ֖ינוּ יְחַלֵּֽק׃
On that day one will raise a parable against you, and he will wail a lament with grief, saying: “We are utterly ruined! The portion of my people He changes! How He removes it from me! To the apostate He parcels out our fields!”
Prophetic Mockery and the Breakdown of Inheritance
Micah 2:4 delivers a sharp prophetic rebuke through the vehicle of ironic lamentation.… Learn Hebrew