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Micah 3:6

Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

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ASV

Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

KJV

Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לָכֵ֞ןla.Khen<to> thereforeH3651 →
לַ֤יְלָהLay.lahnightH3915 →
לָכֶם֙la.Khem[will belong] to you
מֵֽחָז֔וֹןme.cha.Zonfrom visionH2377 →
וְחָשְׁכָ֥הve.cha.she.Khahand it will grow darkH2821 →
לָכֶ֖םla.Khemto you
מִקְּסֹ֑םmi.ke.Somfrom diviningH7080 →
וּבָ֤אָהu.Va.'ahand it will goH935 →
הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ha.She.meshthe sunH8121 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
הַנְּבִיאִ֔יםha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030 →
וְקָדַ֥רve.ka.Darand it will be darkH6937 →
עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם'a.lei.Hemon themH5921 →
הַיּֽוֹם׃hai.Yomthe dayH3117 →

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Amos 8:11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.Isaiah 8:20–22To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.Isaiah 29:10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.Amos 8:9–10And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.Ezekiel 13:23therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”Ezekiel 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.Ezekiel 13:22–23Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,Psalms 74:9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.Zechariah 13:2–4And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.Jeremiah 15:9The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.Isaiah 22:1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,Jeremiah 6:15Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.Ezekiel 13:2“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Tell those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the LORD!

About Micah

Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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