Micah 1:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

Cross References

Job 30:26

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Isaiah 45:7

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

Jeremiah 8:15

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Amos 3:6

If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

1 Samuel 4:13

And when he came, Eli was seated by the wayside watching: and in his heart was fear for the ark of God. And when the man came into the town and gave the news, there was a great outcry.