Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 2:5

5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD ,

Because your sins so great, universal and incorrigible, have provoked God to frame and design this desolation against you, and because he will punish you according to your wayes.

Either oppressour, spoken thus as to one, that it might comprehend every one of them, who are described verse 2. or else, this Thou is the whole Family, spoken of vers▪ 3. perhaps both these may best be meant here.

None that shall ever return to this land, to claim an inheritance there, or to see it allotted by line, and given to them to possess it; the Prophet here alludes to the manner of dividing fields, and inheritance of old in use among them, as in Io[illegible: 1 letter]hua's time; so both the whole Family in general, and the great ones, oppressours and extortioners, are more particularly menaced with an utter and perpetuated exclusion out of the Land in which they sinned, and whence they are carried Captives; whoever do, neither they, nor their posterity, shall possess inheritances in it.

They should no more be the Congregation of the Lord, nor should their children be so, or stand in the Congregation of the Lord at any time hereafter, to claim their portion among Gods people. Thus they are rejected and disinherited, and this to this day is verified on the main body of this people.

Marginal references: Deut. 32.8, 9.