Micah 2 · Verse 10

Micah 2:10

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Micah 2:10, King James Version

Micah 2:10 in other translations

BSBArise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
WEBArise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
ASVArise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
YLTRise and go, for this is not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.
DARBYArise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.
BBEUp! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.
WebsterArise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.

What does Micah 2:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. Arise ye, and depart--not an exhortation to the children of God to depart out of an ungodly world, as it is often applied; though that sentiment is a scriptural one. This world is doubtless not our "rest," being "polluted" with sin: it is our passage, not our portion; our aim, not our home (2Co 6:17; He 13:14). The imperatives express the certainty of the future event predicted. "Since such are your doings (compare Mi 2:7, 8, &c.), My sentence on you is irrevocable (Mi 2:4, 5), however distasteful to you (Mi 2:6); ye who have cast out others from their homes and possessions (Mi 2:2, 8, 9) must arise, depart, and be cast out of your own (Mi 2:4, 5): for this is not your rest" (Nu 10:33; De 12:9; Psa 95:11). Canaan was designed to be a rest to them after their wilderness fatigues. But it is to be so no longer. Thus God refutes the people's self-confidence, as if God were bound to them inseparably. The promise (Psa 132:14) is quite consistent with temporary withdrawal of God from Israel for their sins. it shall destroy you--The land shall spew you out, because of the defilements wherewith ye "polluted" it (Le 18:25, 28; Jr 3:2; Eze 36:12-14).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Arise ye, and depart - Prepare for your captivity; ye shall have no resting place here: the very land is polluted by your iniquities, and shall vomit you out, and it shall be destroyed; and the destruction of it shall be great and sore. Some think this is an exhortation to the godly, to leave a land that was to be destroyed so speedily.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Micah 2:6-11

Since they say, "Prophesy not," God will take them at their word, and their sin shall be their punishment. Let the physician no longer attend the patient that will not be healed. Those are enemies, not only to God, but to their country, who silence good ministers, and stop the means of grace. What bonds will hold those who have no reverence for God's word? Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land they have polluted…

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Micah 2:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ק֣וּמוּKu.muariseH6965
וּלְכ֔וּu.le.Khuand goH1980
כִּ֥יkiforH3588
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
זֹ֖אתzotthisH2063
הַמְּנוּחָ֑הha.me.nu.Chah[is] <the> resting placeH4496
בַּעֲב֥וּרba.'a.Vur<in> becauseH5668
טָמְאָ֛הta.me.'Ahit has become uncleanH2930
תְּחַבֵּ֖לte.cha.Belit will destroyH2254
וְחֶ֥בֶלve.Che.veland [the] destructionH2256
נִמְרָֽץ\׃nim.Ratz[will be] grievousH4834

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Micah 2:10

  • Deuteronomy 12:9

    For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.

  • Psalms 106:38

    And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

  • 2 Kings 17:6

    In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

  • Hebrews 4:1-9

    Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. …

  • 1 Kings 9:7

    Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

  • Leviticus 20:22-26

    Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. …

  • 2 Kings 15:29

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

  • Deuteronomy 30:18

    I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

  • 2 Chronicles 7:20

    Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

  • Joshua 23:15-16

    Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you. When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

  • Jeremiah 9:19

    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

  • Ezekiel 36:12-14

    Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.

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and.
De 4:26; 30:18; Jos 23:15,16; 1Ki 9:7; 2Ki 15:29; 17:6; 2Ch 7:20
2Ch 36:20,21
for.
De 12:9; Ps 95:11; Heb 4:1-9
because.
Le 18:24-28; 20:22-26; Ps 106:38; Jer 3:2
it shall.
Jer 9:19; 10:18; Eze 36:12-14

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Context

  • Micah 2:9

    The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

  • Micah 2:10

    Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

  • Micah 2:11

    If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

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Micah 2:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Levantaos, y andad, que no es ésta la holganza; porque está contaminada, corrompióse, y de grande corrupción.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Levez-vous et allez-vous-en! car ce n’est pas ici un lieu de repos, à cause de la souillure qui amène la ruine: la ruine est terrible!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Machet euch auf und ziehet hin! denn dieses Land ist der Ruheort nicht, um der Verunreinigung willen, die Verderben bringt, und zwar gewaltiges Verderben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Surgite, et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem: propter immunditiam ejus corrumpetur putredine pessima.