Micah 1:8

For this reason I will lament and wail; 1 I will go barefoot and naked; 1 I will wail like the jackals 1 and mourn like owls. 1

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In The King James Version

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

In Context

7All her carved figures will be broken to pieces, 1 and all her gifts that she received will be burned with fire, 1 and I will destroy all her idols. 1 Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, 1 they will become the wages of prostitutes again.” 1

9For her wound is incurable, 1 for it has come to Judah. 1 It has reached the gate of my people, 1 to Jerusalem. 1

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Cross References

Esther 4:1When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. He went out into the middle of the city, and cried out with a loud and a bitter cry.

Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness; 1 I have become like an owl in the ruins. 1

Isaiah 16:9Indeed I will weep along with Jazer for the vineyard of Sibmah. 1 I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh. 1 For on your fields of summer fruits and harvest I have ended the shouts of joy. 1

Isaiah 21:3Therefore my loins are filled with pain; 1 pains like the pains of a woman in labor have taken hold of me; 1 I am bowed down by what I heard; I am disturbed by what I saw. 1

Jeremiah 4:19My heart! My heart! I am in anguish in my heart. My heart is turbulent within me. I cannot keep quiet for I hear the sound of the horn, an alarm for battle.

Jeremiah 9:10I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. 1 For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. 1 The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away. 1

Matthew Henry on Micah 1:2-8

Micah We shall have some account of this prophet in the first verse of the book of his prophecy; and therefore shall here only observe that, being contemporary with the prophet Isaiah (only that he began to prophesy a little after him), there is a near resemblance between that prophet's prophecy and this; and there is a prediction of the advancement and establishment of the gospel-church, which both of them have, almost in the same words, that out of the mouth of two such witnesses so great a word might be… Read the whole commentary →

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