Albert Barnes Commentary Micah 2:9

"The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever." — Micah 2:9 (ASV)

The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses - (literally, from her pleasant house,) each from her home. These were probably the widows of those whom they had stripped.

Since the houses were theirs, they were widows. And so, their spoilers were at war with those whom God had committed to their special love, those whom He had declared the objects of His own tender care: “the widows and the fatherless.”

The widows they “drove vehemently forth,” as having no portion in the inheritance which God had given them, just as God had driven out their enemies before them. Each was driven “from her pleasant house,” the home where she had lived with her husband and children in delight and joy.

From (off) their (young) children have ye taken away My glory - Primarily, the glory, or comeliness, was the fitting apparel which God had given them and laid upon them, and which these oppressors stripped off from them.

But it includes all the gifts of God with which God would array them. Instead of the holy home of parental care, the children grew up in want and neglect, away from all the ordinances of God, perhaps in a strange land.

For ever. They never repented, never made restitution; and so they incurred the special woe of those who mistreated the unprotected, the widow, and the fatherless.

The words “forever” anticipate the punishment. The punishment is according to the sin. They never ceased their oppression. They, with the generation who would come after them, would be deprived of God’s “glory,” and cast out of His land forever.