Micah 7:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ The best of them is like a prickly plant, the most straight is sharper than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman and your punishment has come, now is their confusion.

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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.

Micah 7:4 Cross References

Isaiah 10:3

“What shall you do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which comes from afar? To whom would you run for help? And where would you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 22:5

For it is a day of uproar and treading down and perplexity by the Master יהוה  of hosts in the Valley of Vision – breaking down of a wall and of crying to the mountain.

Isaiah 55:13

“Instead of the thorn the cypress comes up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle comes up. And it shall be to יהוה  for a name, for an everlasting sign which is not cut off.”

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they perish.

Jeremiah 11:23

‘And there shall be no remnant of them, for I bring evil on the men of Anathoth – the year of their punishment.’ ”

Jeremiah 46:21

“Her hired ones too, in her midst, are like fattened calves, for they too shall turn, they shall flee away together. They shall not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 8:12

“Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble in the time of their visitation,” said יהוה.

Ezekiel 2:6

“And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or discouraged by their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 28:24

“And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a paining thorn for the house of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 8:2

And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And יהוה  said to me, “The end has come upon my people Yisra’ĕ

Nahum 1:10

Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.

Luke 21:25

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars, and on the earth anxiety of nations, in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea, and agitation,

Hebrews 6:8

but if it brings forth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.