Micah 1:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² Though the residents of Maroth anxiously wait for something good, disaster has come from the  Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth [bitterness] writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good, because evil comes down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

¹² How she longs for good, inhabitants of Maroth! Calamity has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For she has been weakened in goodness, who dwells in bitterness. For disaster has descended from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

Micah 1:12 Cross References

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness   came.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make success and create disaster; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest   Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Amos 3:6

If a ram’s horn  is blown in a city, aren’t people afraid? If a disaster  occurs in a city, hasn’t the Lord done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable and has reached even Judah; it has approached my people’s city gate, as far as Jerusalem.

Ruth 1:20

‘Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,’  she answered, ‘for the Almighty  has made me very bitter.

1 Samuel 4:13

When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road waiting,  because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.