Micah 7:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 2 In that day they shall come even from Assyria to thee, and to the fortified cities: and from the fortified cities even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The best of them is like a brier; the most upright or the straightest is like a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even of [God's] judgment and your punishment, has come; now shall be their perplexity and confusion.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

Common English Bible

⁴ The good among them are like a briar; those who do the right thing are like a thorny thicket. (A day for your lookouts! Your punishment has arrived. The confusion of the wicked is nearby.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Whoever is best among them is like a thorny plant, and he who is righteous is like a thorny hedge. The day of your inspection, your visitation, arrives. Now will be their ruination.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He that is best among them, is as a brier: and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.

Micah 7:4 Cross References

Isaiah 10:3

1 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Isaiah 22:5

3 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isaiah 55:13

The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.

Jeremiah 10:15

3 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

Jeremiah 11:23

My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: is hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.

Jeremiah 46:21

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.

Jeremiah 8:12

0 The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Ezekiel 2:6

And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words to them.

Ezekiel 28:24

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel.

Amos 8:2

0 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.

Nahum 1:10

The shield of his mighty men is like fire, the men of the army are clad in scarlet, the reins of the chariot are flaming in the day of his preparation, and the drivers are stupefied.

Luke 21:25

3 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Hebrews 6:8

7 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: