Micah 7:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

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  • Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
  • Ps 18:45 : 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
  • Isa 2:19-21 : 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
  • Isa 25:3 : 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  • Exod 15:14-16 : 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
  • Josh 2:9-9 : 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
  • Josh 9:24 : 24 And they answered hua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
  • 1 Sam 14:11 : 11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
  • Ps 9:20 : 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
  • Isa 59:19 : 19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 64:2 : 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
  • Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
  • Jer 33:9 : 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
  • Zech 14:5 : 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they a Jews, and a not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship befo thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the gat men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every fe man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the gat day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
  • Rev 18:9-9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that gat city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

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  • 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

  • 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

  • 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

  • 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

  • 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

  • Isa 29:4-5
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    4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

    5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

  • 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

  • 20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hi themselves from thee, be stroyed.

  • 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

  • 46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

  • 4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

  • Hos 11:10-11
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    10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

    11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their uses, saith the LORD.

  • 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • 11 They have now compassed us in our ste: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

  • 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

  • 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

  • 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

  • Ps 64:8-9
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    8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

    9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

  • 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and voured with burning heat, and with bitter struction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

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    15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

    16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

  • 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

  • 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

  • Ezek 7:17-18
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    17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

    18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

  • 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

  • 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

  • 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

  • 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

  • 17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

  • 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

  • 3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  • 5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

  • 13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  • 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

  • 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

  • 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

  • 10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

  • 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?