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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4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsThe nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.
— The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentMicah — A prophet of rural Moresheth — contemporary of Isaiah — preaching judgment on Jerusalem and Samaria. Bethlehem named as Messiah's birthplace. And the Bible's clearest summary of what the LORD requires.
- Author
- Micah the Morasthite (1:1) — from Moresheth-Gath in the Judean lowlands
- Date
- c. 740–700 BC, during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah