Micah 1:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² Though the inhabitants of Maroth waited for good, yet evil came down from יהוה  to the gate of Yerushalayim.

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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

When I looked for good, then evil came to me. And when I waited for light, darkness came.

Isaiah 45:7

forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I, יהוה, do all these.’

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for a time of healing, but see – fear!

Amos 3:6

If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, do the people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, shall not יהוה  have done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Yehuḏ

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, “Do not call me Naʽ

1 Samuel 4:13

And he came in and saw Ě