Micah 1:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto 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

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Amos 3:6

Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shalt evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Ruth 1:20

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 4:13

And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the way side watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.