Micah 5:12
in Micah 5I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
KJV
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
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This verse in Micah 5
Commentary
7 notes on this verseI will cut off witchcrafts - Thou shalt seek help only in Jehovah thy God. They have had neither soothsayers, images, groves, nor high places, from the captivity to the present day.
This site's exposition
cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand
on Micah 5:12-15
The purge turns from weapons and walls to the occult and the idol, witchcrafts and soothsayers cut off, graven images and standing images destroyed, and the groves, the wooden Asherah poles set up beside so many altars, plucked up entirely, so that nothing rivaling the Lord is left standing in the land. The chapter closes outward rather than inward, vengeance executed in anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard, judgment falling on nations that never received the revelation Israel was given. The whole sweep from verse 9 to verse 15 leaves Israel purified of every false confidence before the peace the ruler brings can be fully realized.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 7 onwards) And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or delay for the sons of men.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
The Abasement and Distress of Zion; Birth of the Messiah Predicted; 1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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): " I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand, that thou shalt no more take hold of them, and stay thyself upon them, and thou shalt have no more soothsayers, for thou shalt be convinced that all their pretensions are a cheat." The justice of the nation shall cut them off according to law, Lev. xx. The preaching of the gospel brought men off from using curious arts, Acts xix.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens
I will cut off - God will in mercy to his people take away these occasions of sin.
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand,....
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י | vehikhrati | and I will cut off | H3772 → | 288 times |
| כְשָׁפִ֖ים | kheshafim | sorceries | H3785 → | |
| מִיָּדֶ֑ךָ | miyadekha | from hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים | umeonim | and soothsayers | H6049 → | |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִֽהְיוּ־ | yihyu- | they will belong | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָֽךְ׃ | lakh | to you |
וְהִכְרַתִּ֥יand I will cut off
vehikhratiH3772 →288 times
כְשָׁפִ֖יםsorceries
kheshafimH3785 →
מִיָּדֶ֑ךָfrom hand your
miyadekhaH3027 →1618 times
וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖יםand soothsayers
umeonimH6049 →
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
יִֽהְיוּ־they will belong
yihyu-H1961 →3559 times
לָֽךְ׃to you
lakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
it leads to
- Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
- Galatians 5:19–21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Revelation 21:8
Through
Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
it leads to
- Isaiah 30:22
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- Isaiah 31:7
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- Isaiah 46:1
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Isaiah 30:22
Where this verse is studied
About Micah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Micah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
