Micah 4:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.

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  • Isa 55:8 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
  • Jer 29:11 : 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
  • Luke 3:17 : 17 Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
  • Rom 11:33-34 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?
  • Rev 14:14-20 : 14 And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat one like the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap; for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 So he who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. 19 And the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses' bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.
  • Isa 21:10 : 10 O my threshing and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
  • Joel 3:12-13 : 12 Let the nations be stirred up, and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
  • Zech 14:1-3 : 1 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

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  • 13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall beat in pieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

  • 18They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • 11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • 13They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • 7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

  • 2The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

  • 5They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • Ps 129:6-7
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    6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

    7With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

  • 22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 10For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

  • 12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Isa 28:28-29
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    71%

    28Bread grain is crushed, yet he does not thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

    29This also comes from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

  • 6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • 18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • 24Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 5Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up.

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

  • 3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 15Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • 4Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

  • 15Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.

  • 9But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and those who have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

  • 27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • 24Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, their stock shall not take root in the earth; and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • 4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • 18Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people are scattered upon the mountains, and no one gathers them.

  • 11When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

  • 10O my threshing and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

  • 1Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired;

  • 4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

  • 7Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

  • 14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there shall not be a coal to warm by, nor a fire to sit before.

  • 22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be visited.

  • 14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.

  • 4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.

  • 4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God.

  • 12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

  • 13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • 26Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • 10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he makes the plans of the people of no effect.

  • 12Thus says the LORD: Though they be at peace and likewise many, yet they shall be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

  • 3But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 13For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

  • 2And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth.

  • 9Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

  • 14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.