TSK · Micah 2:4

He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Job again took up his parable, and said,

that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.