Micah 2:10

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

Arise ye, and depart - not an exhortation to the children of God to depart out of an ungodly world, as it is often applied; though that sentiment is a scriptural one. This world is doubtless not our "rest," being "polluted" with sin: it is our passage, not our portion; our aim, not our home (; ). The imperatives express the certainty of the future event predicted. 'Since such are your doings (cf. Micah 2:7, etc), my sentence on you is irrevocable (Micah 2:4), however distasteful to you (), ye who have cast out others from their homes and possessions (; Micah 2:8), must arise, depart, and be cast out of your own (Micah 2:4); for this is not your rest," though once it was (; ; ). Canaan was designed to be a rest to them after their wilderness fatigues. But it is to be so no longer. Thus God refutes the people's self-confidence, as if God were bound to them inseparably. The promise (, "This is my rest forever: here will I dwell, for I have desired it") is quite consistent with temporary withdrawal of God from Israel for their sins.

Because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction - the land shall spue you out, because of the defilements wherewith ye polluted it (; ; ; Ezekiel 36:12).