Micah 1:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for evil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem.

Micah 1:12 Cross References

Job 30:26

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

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 4:13

When he arrived, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.