Discovery BoxMicah 2:4 
Context2:4 In that day people will sing this taunt song to you –
they will mock you with this lament: 1
‘We are completely destroyed;
they sell off 2 the property of my people.
How they remove it from me! 3
They assign our fields to the conqueror.’ 4
Micah 4:2
Context4:2 Many nations will come, saying,
“Come on! Let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain,
to the temple 5 of Jacob’s God,
so he can teach us his commands 6
and we can live by his laws.” 7
For Zion will be the source of instruction;
the Lord’s teachings will proceed from Jerusalem. 8
1 tc The form נִהְיָה (nihyah) should be omitted as dittographic (note the preceding וְנָהָה נְהִי vÿnahah nÿhiy).
tn Heb “one will lament [with] a lamentation [and] say.”
2 tn Or “exchange.” The LXX suggests a reading יִמַּד (yimmad) from מָדַד (madad, “to measure”). In this case one could translate, “the property of my people is measured out [i.e., for resale].”
3 tn Heb “how one removes for me.” Apparently the preposition has the nuance “from” here (cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
4 tc The Hebrew term שׁוֹבֵב (shovev, “the one turning back”) elsewhere has the nuance “apostate” (cf. NASB) or “traitor” (cf. NIV). The translation assumes an emendation to שָׁבָה (shavah, “captor”).
tn Heb “to the one turning back he assigns our fields.”
5 tn Heb “house.”
6 tn Heb “ways.”
7 tn Heb “and we can walk in his paths.”
8 tn Heb “instruction [or, “law”] will go out from Zion, and the word of the
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