Micah 1:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto 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.

Micah 1:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Amos 3:6

Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shalt evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Micah 1:9

For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Ruth 1:20

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 4:13

And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the way side watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.