Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like the serpent, Like the crawlers of the earth, shall they come quaking out of their fastnesses,—Towards Yahweh our God, shall they pay adoration, and shall fear because of thee.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Exodus 15:14Peoples have heard they tremble,—A pang, hath seized the dwellers of Philistia:
Joshua 9:24And they responded to Joshua, and said—Because it was, plainly told, thy servants, how that Yahweh thy God had commanded Moses his servant to give unto you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you,—therefore feared we greatly, for our lives, because of you, and did this thing.
2 Samuel 22:46The sons of the foreigner, were disheartened, and came quaking, out of their fortresses.
Psalms 9:20Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them,—Let the nations know [that] they are men. [Selah.]
Psalms 72:9Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;
Isaiah 2:19And they shall enter into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of clay,—Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour, When he ariseth to shake 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 →