Micah 7:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

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  • Isa 26:11 : 11 Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
  • Isa 52:15 : 15 So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
  • Job 29:9-9 : 9 The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; 10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
  • Ps 126:2 : 2 Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
  • Job 21:5 : 5 Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
  • Isa 66:18 : 18 And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.
  • Ezek 38:23 : 23 And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • Ezek 39:17-21 : 17 And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink. 18 The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. 19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you. 20 At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord. 21 And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my punishments which I have put into effect, and my hand which I have put on them.
  • Mic 5:8 : 8 Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.
  • Zech 8:20-23 : 20 This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come, 21 And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. 22 And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. 23 This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
  • Zech 12:9 : 9 And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
  • Rev 11:18 : 18 And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.

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