Micah 7:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they shall lick dust like a snake, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their fortresses; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall stand in fear of you.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their strongholds.

2 Chronicles 17:10

The fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands around Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

Psalm 18:45

Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their strongholds.

Psalm 72:11

May all kings fall down before him, all nations give him service.

Psalm 72:9

May his foes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are only human. Selah

Isaiah 25:3

Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.

Isaiah 59:19

So those in the west shall fear the name of the Lord, and those in the east, his glory, for he will come like a pent-up stream that the wind of the Lord drives on.

Isaiah 60:14

The descendants of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 64:2

as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, but the serpent—its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

Isaiah 7:19

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks and on all the thornbushes and on all the watering holes.

Jeremiah 16:16

I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 33:9

And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

Lamentations 3:29

to put one’s mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope),

Zechariah 14:5

And you shall flee by the valley of the Lord’s mountain, for the valley between the mountains shall reach to Azal, and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with him.

Deuteronomy 32:24

wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were in great fear for our lives because of you and did this thing.

Revelation 3:9

I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not but are lying—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.

1 Samuel 14:11

So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.”