Micah 1:12 - The Scriptures 2009

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 Yehuḏah? Has Your being loathed Tsiyon? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for the time of healing, but see – fear!

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 shophar 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 Yehuḏah, it has come to the gate of My people, to Yerushalayim.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, “Do not call me Na‛omi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 4:13

And he came in and saw Ěli, sitting on a seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of Elohim. And the man came into the city and reported it, and all the city cried out.