Micah 7:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 26:11 : 11 LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they will see and be ashamed for their envy of the people; yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
  • Isa 52:15 : 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they see; and what they had not heard shall they consider.
  • Job 29:9-9 : 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Ps 126:2 : 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then they said among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.
  • Job 21:5 : 5 Look at me and be astonished, and place your hand over your mouth.
  • Isa 66:18 : 18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
  • Ezek 38:23 : 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 39:17-21 : 17 And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all sides to my sacrificial feast that I prepare for you, even a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial feast which I have prepared for you. 20 Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord GOD. 21 And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
  • Mic 5:8 : 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goes through, both treads down and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.
  • Zech 8:20-23 : 20 Thus says the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: 21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go quickly to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. 22 Yes, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. 23 Thus says the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the garment of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
  • Zech 12:9 : 9 And it shall happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • Rev 11:18 : 18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and destroy those who destroy the earth.

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  • 17They 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 you.

  • 7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.

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

  • Ps 59:7-8
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

    8But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.

  • 8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves; all who see them shall flee away.

  • 16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together, those who are makers of idols.

  • 16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 5Look at me and be astonished, and place your hand over your mouth.

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

  • 15So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they see; and what they had not heard shall they consider.

  • 11LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they will see and be ashamed for their envy of the people; yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

  • Jer 5:15-16
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    15Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say.

    16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • 11Behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and those who strive with you shall perish.

  • 18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

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

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

  • Isa 17:12-13
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    12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

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

  • 16They that see you will look narrowly upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;

  • Job 29:9-10
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    9The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths.

    10The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

  • Ps 83:16-17
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    16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.

    17Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish:

  • 18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

  • 1Come near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.

  • 7Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the nations that are about you, they shall bear their own shame.

  • Ps 135:16-17
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    16They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see;

    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 7Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

  • 19You will not see a fierce people, a people of a speech too deep to understand, of a stammering tongue that you cannot comprehend.

  • 8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 11The LORD will be awesome to them: for he will starve all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

  • 28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

  • 6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

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

  • 18For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 1Keep silent before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

  • 7They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat.

  • 26And he will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

  • 7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt:

  • 18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

  • 24Therefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses; I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.

  • 15According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt will I show him marvelous things.

  • 29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.