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Micah 7:16

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.

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ASV

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.

KJV

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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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יִרְא֤וּyir.'Uthey will seeH7200 →
גוֹיִם֙go.YimnationsH1471 →
וְיֵבֹ֔שׁוּve.ye.Vo.shuso they may be ashamedH954 →
מִכֹּ֖לmi.Kolfrom allH3605 →
גְּבֽוּרָתָ֑םge.vu.ra.Tamstrength theirH1369 →
יָשִׂ֤ימוּya.Si.muthey will putH7760 →
יָד֙yada handH3027 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
פֶּ֔הPeha mouthH6310 →
אָזְנֵיהֶ֖ם'a.ze.nei.Hemears theirH241 →
תֶּחֱרַֽשְׁנָה׃te.che.Rash.nahthey will be deafH2790 →

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Isaiah 26:11O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!Isaiah 52:15so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.Judges 18:19“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”Zechariah 12:8On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.Job 29:9–10The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.Zechariah 10:6I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.Isaiah 66:18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.Zechariah 8:20–23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.Ezekiel 38:23I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.Psalms 126:2Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”Zechariah 12:9So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.Revelation 11:18The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Ezekiel 39:17–21And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.Micah 3:7Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”

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