Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places. They shall come with fear to LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.
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Exodus 15:14The peoples have heard, they tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
Joshua 9:24And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore w
2 Samuel 22:46The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their hiding places.
Psalms 9:20Put them in fear, O LORD. Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalms 72:9Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Isaiah 2:19And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Matthew Henry on Micah 7:15-20
Encouraging Prospects; Encouraging Promises. ( b. c. 700.) 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things. 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. 17 They shall lick the dust like a… Read the whole commentary →