Micah 2:10

10. In the face of such outrages mercy and long-suffering are out of place; judgment must be executed, and in Micah 2:10 the sentence contained in Micah 2:3-4 is reiterated; the guilty ones must be cut off from their pleasant homes and cast into exile.

Arise ye, and depart Their punishment will be according to the lex talionis; they have sold others into slavery, now they must suffer a similar fate.

Your rest R.V., “resting place.” “Rest was one of the chief aspects under which Canaan was regarded” (Deuteronomy 12:9), but it cannot be a resting place for such as are not on good terms with the owner of the land, Jehovah. As the text reads at present, the rest of the verse states why the land can no longer be a resting place for them. As a result of the defilement the land will “vomit out its inhabitants.” A better rendering is that of R.V., “because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction”; an even better translation would be, “because of uncleanness that brings destruction, even grievous destruction.” LXX., however, suggests a different reading, which may be original. It separates 10b more completely from 10a, and reads the former, “because of uncleanness ye shall be destroyed with a grievous destruction.”