Micah 1:12

A Conservative Version

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:19

Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have 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!

Micah 1:9

For her wounds are incurable. For it has come even to Judah. it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Amos 3:6

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

Jeremiah 8:15

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

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

Job 30:26

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

1 Samuel 4:13

And when he came, lo, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the wayside 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.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.