| Geneva Study Bible Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in {c} the congregation of the LORD. (c) You will have no more lands to divide as you had in times past, and as you used to measure them in the Jubilee. Wesley's Notes 2:5 Thou shalt have - None that shall ever return to this land, to see it allotted by line and given them to possess it. In the congregation - They shall no more be the congregation of the Lord, nor their children after them. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 5. Therefore-resumed from Mic 2:3. On account of your crimes described in Mic 2:1, 2. thou-the ideal individual ("me," Mic 2:4), representing the guilty people in whose name he spoke. none that . cast a cord by lot-none who shall have any possession measured out. in the congregation of the Lord-among the people consecrated to Jehovah. By covetousness and violence (Mic 2:2) they had forfeited "the portion of Jehovah's people." This is God's implied answer to their complaint of injustice (Mic 2:4). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 2:1-5 Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought, much worse to do it with design and forethought. It is of great moment to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a proper manner. If covetousness reigns in the heart, compassion is banished; and when the heart is thus engaged, violence and fraud commonly occupy the hands. The most haughty and secure in prosperity, are commonly most ready to despair in adversity. Woe to those from whom God turns away! Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregation of the Lord, or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges. | 
