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Micah 2:9

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2:9You wrongly evict widows25 among my people from their cherished homes.

You defraud their children26 of their prized inheritance.27

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  1. 25 Heb “women.” This may be a synecdoche of the whole (women) for the part (widows).
  2. 26 Heb “her little children” or “her infants”; , “young children.”
  3. 27 Heb “from their children you take my glory forever.” The yod (י) ending on הֲדָרִי (hadariy) is usually taken as a first person common singular suffix (“my glory”). But it may be the archaic genitive ending (“glory of”) in the construct expression “glory of perpetuity,” that is, “perpetual glory.” In either case, this probably refers to the dignity or honor the Lord bestowed on each Israelite family by giving them a share of his land to be inherited perpetually from one generation to another within each family. The term הָדָר (hadar) may refer to possessions that a person prizes (Lam 1:6).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The women of my people you drive out

from their delightful houses;

from their young children you take away

my splendor forever.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You drive the women of my people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away my blessing

from their children forever.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You force the women of my people

out of their comfortable homes,

and you take my blessing

from their children forever.

NLTNew Living Translation

You have evicted women from their pleasant homes

and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You have driven out the women of my people

from the houses of their pleasure.

From their children you have taken away

my glory forever.

KJV 1900King James Version

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses;

From their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.