Micah 2:4

“In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, etc.] Making use of your name, as a byword, a proverb, a taunt, and a jeer; mocking at your calamities and miseries: or, “concerning you”f99; take up and deliver out a narrative of your troubles, in figurative and parabolical expressions; which Kimchi thinks is to be understood of a false prophet, finding his prophecies and promises come to nothing; or rather a stranger, a bystander, a spectator of their miseries, an insulting enemy, mimicking and representing them; or one of themselves, in the name of the rest: and lament with a doleful lamentation; or, “lament a lamentation of lamentation”f100: a very grievous one; or, “a lamentation…”

“one take up a parable against you--that is, Some of your foes shall do so, taking in derision from your own mouth your "lamentation," namely, "We be spoiled," &c. lament with a doleful lamentation--literally, "lament with a lamentation of lamentations." Hebrew, naha, nehi, nihyah, the repetition representing the continuous and monotonous wail. he hath changed the portion of my people--a charge of injustice against Jehovah. He transfers to other nations the sacred territory assigned as the rightful portion of our people (Mic 1:15). turning away he hath divided our fields--Turning away from us to the enemy, He hath divided among them our fields. CALVIN, as the Margin, explains, "Instead of…”

“In that day shall one take up a parable against you - The mashal or likeness may, in itself, be any speech in which one thing is likened to another: 1) “figured speech,” 2) “proverb,” and, since such proverbs were often sharp sayings against others, 3) “taunting figurative speech.” But of the person himself it is always said, he “is made, becomes a proverb” Deuteronomy 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Psalms 44:15; Psalms 69:12; Jeremiah 24:9; Ezekiel 14:8. To take up or utter such a speech against one, is, elsewhere, followed by the speech itself; “Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, ...” Isaiah 14:4. “Shall not all these take up a parable against him,…”

“A parable - A taunting proverb. And lament - Your friends for you, and you for yourselves. He - God. Portion - Their wealth, plenty, freedom, joy and honour, into poverty, famine, servitude, grief and dishonour. How - How dreadfully hath God dealt with Israel; removing their persons into captivity, and transferring their possession to their enemies? Turning away - Turning away from us in displeasure. God hath divided our fields among others. Micah 2:5”

“2:4 The power brokers would be ruined financially as their enemies confiscated their property. The land that they had seized unjustly from fellow Israelites would be violently taken from them (2:5).”

“shall: Num 23:7, Num 23:18, Num 24:3, Num 24:15; Job 27:1; Isa 14:4; Eze 16:44; Hab 2:6; Mar 12:12 and lament: Sa2 1:17; Ch2 35:25; Jer 9:10, Jer 9:17-21, Jer 14:18; Joe 1:8, Joe 1:13; Amo 5:1, Amo 5:17 a doleful lamentation: Heb. a lamentation of lamentations, Lam. 1:1-5:22; Eze 2:10 We: Deu 28:29; Isa 6:11, Isa 24:3; Jer 9:19, Jer 25:9-11; Zep 1:2 he: etc he hath changed: Mic 2:10, Mic 1:15; Kg2 17:23, Kg2 17:24; Ch2 36:20, Ch2 36:21; Isa 63:17, Isa 63:18 turning away he: or, instead of restoring Micah 2:5”