Micah 7:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

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  • Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.
  • Ps 18:45 : 45 They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.
  • Isa 2:19-21 : 19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength. 20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places; 21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
  • Isa 25:3 : 3 For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life: 15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
  • Exod 15:14-16 : 14 Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. 15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. 16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.
  • Josh 2:9-9 : 9 And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us; 10 For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse. 11 And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.
  • Josh 9:24 : 24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.
  • 1 Sam 14:11 : 11 And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover.
  • Ps 9:20 : 20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)
  • Isa 59:19 : 19 So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 64:2 : 2 While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
  • Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
  • Jer 33:9 : 9 And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
  • Zech 14:5 : 5 And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?
  • Rev 18:9-9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.

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    16 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.

  • Isa 2:19
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    19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

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    9 Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.

  • Isa 2:21
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    21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Isa 2:10
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    10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

  • Zeph 2:11
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    11 The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

  • Isa 7:19
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    19 And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

  • Isa 29:4-5
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    4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

    5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

  • Isa 24:17
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    17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

  • Deut 7:20
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    20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

  • Ps 53:5
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    5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

  • 2 Sam 22:46
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    46 They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

  • Isa 33:4
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    4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

  • Hos 11:10-11
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    10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;

    11 Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.

  • Isa 17:13
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    13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

  • Deut 28:25
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    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ps 18:45
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    45 They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

  • Ps 114:7
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    7 Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

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    7 I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.

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    16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.

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    15 So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:

  • Job 21:26
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    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Ezek 7:17-18
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    17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

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    8 Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him.

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  • Mal 4:3
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    3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

  • Hab 1:7
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    7 They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.

  • Zeph 1:17
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    17 And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

  • Mic 1:3
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  • Zech 10:5
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    21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

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    13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

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    12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

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    10 And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

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