Micah 7:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The best of them is like a briar; the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchmen, the day of your punishment, is coming; at this time their panic is here.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:5

For the Lord God of Armies had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion in the Valley of Vision – people shouting  and crying to the mountains;

Ezekiel 2:6

‘But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their words,  even though briars and thorns are beside you and you live among scorpions.  Don’t be afraid of their words or discouraged by the look on their faces, for they are a rebellious house.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.

Luke 21:25

‘Then there will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars;   and there will be anguish on the earth among nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the waves.

Nahum 1:10

For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.

Amos 8:2

He asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’ I replied, ‘A basket of summer fruit.’  , The Lord said to me, ‘The end has come for my people Israel;  I will no longer spare them.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse,’ says the Lord.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn bush, a cypress will come up, and instead of the briar, a myrtle will come up; this will stand as a monument for the Lord, an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.

Jeremiah 11:23

They will have no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth  in the year of their punishment.’

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her mercenaries among her are like stall-fed calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee; they will not take their stand, for the day of their calamity is coming on them, the time of their punishment.

Ezekiel 28:24

‘ “The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by  prickly briars or painful thorns  from all their neighbours who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.