Micah 4:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

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  • Isa 55:8 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
  • Jer 29:11 : 11 For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
  • Luke 3:17 : 17 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.
  • Rom 11:33-34 : 33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out. 34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
  • Rev 14:14-20 : 14 And I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud I saw one seated, like a son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp curved blade. 15 And another angel came out from the house of God, crying with a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, Put in your blade, and let the grain be cut: because the hour for cutting it is come; for the grain of the earth is over-ready. 16 And he who was seated on the cloud sent in his blade on the earth; and the grain of the earth was cut. 17 And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire; and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut; for her grapes are fully ready. 19 And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God. 20 And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.
  • Isa 21:10 : 10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.
  • Joel 3:12-13 : 12 See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head; 13 I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.
  • Zech 14:1-3 : 1 See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes. 2 For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town. 3 Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

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    13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

  • Jer 12:13
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    13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Hos 8:7
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    7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

  • Hos 9:2
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    2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Ps 129:6-7
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    6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

    7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • Amos 3:10
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    10 For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

  • Mic 3:12
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    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Isa 28:28-29
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    28 Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

    29 This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

  • Job 24:6
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    6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • Job 21:18
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    18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Isa 5:24
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    24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Hos 13:3
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    3 So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

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    4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • Isa 54:15
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    15 See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.

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  • Isa 37:27
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    24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

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    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

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  • Isa 21:10
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    10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.

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    1 Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;

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    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

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    14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

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    22 And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.

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  • Hos 8:4
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    4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

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  • Hos 7:14
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    14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.