Micah 1:12 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹² Those who live in Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the Lord, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth [bitterness] writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good, because evil comes down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

¹² How she longs for good, inhabitants of Maroth! Calamity has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For she has been weakened in goodness, who dwells in bitterness. For disaster has descended from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for evil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem.

Micah 1:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 30:26

Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Amos 3:6

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?

Micah 1:9

For Samaria’s plague is incurable; it has spread to Judah. It has reached the very gate of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.

Ruth 1:20

‘Don’t call me Naomi,’ she told them. ‘Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

1 Samuel 4:13

When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road, watching, because his heart feared for the ark of God. When the man entered the town and told what had happened, the whole town sent up a cry.