Micah 7:17

Modern English Version

They will lick dust like the serpent, like crawling creatures of the earth; they will come shuddering from their lairs. They will turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they will be afraid of You.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lose heart; they gird themselves as they leave their fortresses.

2 Chronicles 17:10

The terror of the Lord came on all the kingdoms of the land that surrounded Judah, and they did not bring war against Jehoshaphat.

Psalm 18:45

The foreigners lose heart, and come trembling from their strongholds.

Psalm 72:11

May all kings bow down before him, all nations serve him.

Psalm 72:9

May those who dwell in the wilderness bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O  Lord, that the nations themselves may know that they are mortals.    Selah

Isaiah 25:3

Therefore a strong people shall glorify You; cities of ruthless nations shall fear You.

Isaiah 49:23

kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the ground and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am the Lord, for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 59:19

So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

Isaiah 60:14

The sons also of those who afflicted you shall come bowing before you, and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you, The City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 64:2

as when the melting fire burns, as the fire causes the waters to boil, to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bull, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, says the Lord.

Isaiah 7:19

They shall come, and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes.

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jeremiah 33:9

It will be to Me a name of joy, praise, and honor before all the nations of the earth which shall hear of all the good that I do to them; and they will fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure for it.

Lamentations 3:29

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope.

Zechariah 14:5

And you will flee to my mountain valley, for the mountain valley will reach to Azal. You will flee just like you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all His holy ones with you.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling creatures in the dust.

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “It was told to your slaves that the Lord your God commanded Moses His servant to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. So we were very afraid for our lives, and we did this thing.

Revelation 3:9

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them come and worship before your feet and to know that I have loved you.

1 Samuel 14:11

So the two of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the caves where they have hidden themselves.”