In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled - namely, some of your foes shall do so, taking in derision from your own mouth your "lamentation," namely, "We be spoiled," etc.
Lament with a doleful lamentation - literally lament with a lamentation of lamentations. The 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 Yahweh. He transfers to other nations the sacred territory assigned as the rightful portion and inheritance of our people (Micah 1:15).
How hath he removed it from me! - namely, removed from me all that once was mine.
Turning away he hath divided our fields - turning away from us to the enemy, he hath divided among them our fields. Calvin, as margin, explains, 'instead of restoring our territory, He hath divided our fields among our enemies, each of whom henceforward will have an interest in keeping what he hath gotten: so that we are utterly shut out from hope of restoration.' Maurer translates as a verbal participial noun х showbeeb (H7728)], 'He hath divided our fields to a rebel' - i:e., to the foe, who is a rebel against the true God and a worshipper of idols. "Backsliding" is used for backslider Jeremiah 49:4. So Grotius translates: the English version gives a good sense, and is quite tenable in the Hebrew. It is, literally 'for turning away' (so the Hebrew is used, Isaiah 47:10) - i:e., so as to be turned away from us, "He hath divided our fields."