Micah 6:16

Good News Translation

This will happen because you have followed the evil practices of King Omri and of his son, King Ahab. You have continued their policies, and so I will bring you to ruin, and everyone will despise you. People everywhere will treat you with contempt.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:4

and when Jezebel was killing the Lord's prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them, hid them in caves in two groups of fifty, and provided them with food and water.)

1 Kings 9:8

This Temple will become a pile of ruins, and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this Temple?’ they will ask.

2 Kings 16:3

and followed the example of the kings of Israel. He even sacrificed his own son as a burnt offering to idols, imitating the disgusting practice of the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced.

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the pagan places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he built altars for the worship of Baal and made an image of the goddess Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh also worshiped the stars.

2 Chronicles 22:4

He sinned against the Lord, because after his father's death other members of King Ahab's family became his advisers, and they led to his downfall.

2 Chronicles 34:25

They have rejected me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and so have stirred up my anger by all they have done. My anger is aroused against Jerusalem, and it will not die down.

Psalm 1:1

Happy are those who reject the advice of evil people, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God.

Psalm 44:13

Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.

Psalm 44:14

You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

Isaiah 25:8

The Sovereign Lord will destroy death forever! He will wipe away the tears from everyone's eyes and take away the disgrace his people have suffered throughout the world. The Lord himself has spoken.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who lead these people have misled them and totally confused them.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse—as they still do.

Jeremiah 25:9

‘I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with war, starvation, and disease, and all the nations of the world will be horrified at what they see. Everywhere I scatter them, people will be shocked and terrified at what has happened to them. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.

Jeremiah 51:51

You say, ‘We've been disgraced and made ashamed; we feel completely helpless because foreigners have taken over the holy places in the Temple.’

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not obey or pay any attention. Instead, they did whatever their stubborn and evil hearts told them to do, and they became worse instead of better.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Look at us, and see our disgrace.

Ezekiel 39:26

When they are once more living in safety in their own land, with no one to threaten them, they will be able to forget how they were disgraced for having betrayed me.

Daniel 9:16

You have defended us in the past, so do not be angry with Jerusalem any longer. It is your city, your sacred hill. All the people in the neighboring countries look down on Jerusalem and on your people because of our sins and the evil our ancestors did.

Hosea 12:14

The people of Israel have made the Lord bitterly angry; they deserve death for their crimes. Their Lord will punish them for the disgrace they have brought on him.

Hosea 5:11

Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.

Micah 2:6

The people preach at me and say, “Don't preach at us. Don't preach about all that. God is not going to disgrace us.

Micah 6:13

So I have already begun your ruin and destruction because of your sins.

Revelation 2:20

But this is what I have against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a messenger of God. By her teaching she misleads my servants into practicing sexual immorality and eating food that has been offered to idols.