Micah 6:16

New American Bible - revised edition

You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:4

When Jezebel was slaughtering the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them away by fifties in caves, and supplied them with food and water.

1 Kings 9:8

and this house shall become a heap of ruins. Every passerby shall gasp in horror and ask, “Why has the Lord done such things to this land and to this house?”

2 Kings 16:3

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even immolated his child by fire, in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He set up altars to Baal and also made an asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.

2 Chronicles 22:4

To his own destruction, he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab, since they were his counselors after the death of his father.

2 Chronicles 34:25

Because they have abandoned me and have burned incense to other gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands, my anger burns against this place and it cannot be extinguished.

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers.

Psalm 44:13

You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.

Psalm 44:14

You make us the reproach of our neighbors, the mockery and scorn of those around us.

Isaiah 25:8

He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 9:16

That is why the Lord does not spare their young men, and their orphans and widows he does not pity; For they are totally impious and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city a waste and an object of hissing. Because of all its wounds, every passerby will be horrified and hiss.

Jeremiah 25:18

to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations among which I have banished them,

Jeremiah 51:51

We are ashamed because we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces; strangers have entered sanctuaries in the Lord’s house.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen to me, nor did they pay attention. They walked in the stubbornness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, Lord, what has happened to us, pay attention, and see our disgrace:

Ezekiel 39:26

They will forget their shame and all the infidelities they committed against me when they live securely on their own land with no one to frighten them.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, in keeping with all your just deeds, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. On account of our sins and the crimes of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become the reproach of all our neighbors.

Hosea 12:14

But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet Israel was tended.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!

Micah 2:6

“Do not preach,” they preach, “no one should preach of these things! Shame will not overtake us.”

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

Revelation 2:20

Yet I hold this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, who teaches and misleads my servants to play the harlot and to eat food sacrificed to idols.