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Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

In Context

16The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.

18Who is a God like thee, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:14The nations heard and were angry, pangs have seized on the dwellers among the Philistines. 1

Joshua 9:24And they answered Joshua, saying, It was reported to us what the Lord thy God charged his servant Moses, to give you this land, and to destroy us and all that dwelt on it from before you; and we feared very much for our lives because of you, and therefore we did this thing.

2 Samuel 22:46The strange children shall be cast away, 1 And shall be overthrown out of their hiding places. 1

Psalms 9:20Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: 1 Let the heathen be judged before thee. 1

Psalms 72:9They have set their mouth against heaven, 1 And their tongue has gone through upon the earth. 1

Isaiah 2:19having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

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 →

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