Micah 7:16
The nations will look, and they will be confounded at the strength of them all. They will place hand over mouth; their ears will be deaf.
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15As in the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will reveal miracles to him.
Cross References
Job 29:9The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.
Psalms 126:2It is in vain that you rise before daylight, that you rise up after you have sat down, you who chew the bread of sorrow. Whereas, to his beloved, he will give sleep.
Isaiah 52:15He will sprinkle many nations; kings will close their mouth because of him. And those to whom he was not described, have seen. And those who have not heard, have considered.
Ezekiel 38:23And I will be magnified and sanctified. And I will be known in the eyes of the many nations. And they shall know that I am the Lord.”
Micah 5:8And there will be a remnant of Jacob within the Gentiles, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forests, and like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, when he will pass through and trample down and seize, there is none who can rescue.
Zechariah 12:9And this shall be in that day: I will seek to crush all the Gentiles that come against Jerusalem.
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 →