Micah 1:8

Good News Translation

Then Micah said, “Because of this I will mourn and lament. To show my sorrow, I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and wail like an ostrich.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:13

In the fourteenth year of the reign of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the emperor of Assyria, attacked the fortified cities of Judah and conquered them.

Esther 4:1

When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes in anguish. Then he dressed in sackcloth, covered his head with ashes, and walked through the city, wailing loudly and bitterly,

Job 30:29

My voice is as sad and lonely as the cries of a jackal or an ostrich.

Psalm 102:6

I am like a wild bird in the desert, like an owl in abandoned ruins.

Isaiah 13:21

It will be a place where desert animals live and where owls build their nests. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will prance through the ruins.

Isaiah 13:22

The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over.”

Isaiah 16:9

Now I weep for Sibmah's vines as I weep for Jazer. My tears fall for Heshbon and Elealeh, because there is no harvest to make the people glad.

Isaiah 21:3

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 22:4

Now leave me alone to weep bitterly over all those of my people who have died. Don't try to comfort me.

Isaiah 32:11

You have been living an easy life, free from worries; but now, tremble with fear! Strip off your clothes and tie rags around your waist.

Jeremiah 4:19

The pain! I can't bear the pain! My heart! My heart is beating wildly! I can't keep quiet; I hear the trumpets and the shouts of battle.

Jeremiah 9:1

I wish my head were a well of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night for my people who have been killed.

Jeremiah 9:10

I said, “I will mourn for the mountains and weep for the pastures, because they have dried up, and no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard; birds and wild animals have fled and gone.”

Jeremiah 9:19

Listen to the sound of crying in Zion: “We are ruined! We are completely disgraced! We must leave our land; our homes have been torn down.”

Ezekiel 32:18

“Mortal man,” he said, “mourn for all the many people of Egypt. Send them down with the other powerful nations to the world of the dead.

Micah 2:4

When that time comes, people will use the story about you as an example of disaster, and they will sing this song of despair about your experience: We are completely ruined! The Lord has taken our land away And given it to those who took us captive.”

1 Samuel 19:24

He took off his clothes and danced and shouted in Samuel's presence, and lay naked all that day and all that night. (This is how the saying originated, “Has even Saul become a prophet?”)