Micah 7:17
They shall licke the dust like a serpent: they shall mooue out of their holes like wormes: they shalbe afraide of the Lord our God, and shall feare because of thee.
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Exodus 15:14The people shall heare and be afraide: sorow shall come vpon the inhabitants of Palestina.
Joshua 9:24And they answered Ioshua, and sayd, Because it was tolde thy seruants, that the Lord thy God had commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our liues at the presence of you, and haue done this thing:
2 Samuel 22:46Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers.
Psalms 9:20Put them in feare, O Lord, that the heathen may knowe that they are but men. Selah.
Psalms 72:9They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.
Isaiah 2:19Then they shall goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the caues of the earth, from before the feare of the Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he shall arise to destroy 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 →