Micah 5:12
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Micah 5:12 in other translations
| BSB | I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers. |
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| WEB | I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers. |
| ASV | And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: |
| YLT | And have cut off sorcerers out of thy hand, And observers of clouds thou hast none. |
| DARBY | And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers. |
| BBE | I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs: |
| Webster | And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more sooth-sayers: |
What does Micah 5:12 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Micah 5:7-15
The remnant of Israel, converted to Christ in the primitive times, were among many nations as the drops of dew, and were made instruments in calling a large increase of spiritual worshippers. But to those who neglected or opposed this salvation, they would, as lions, cause terror, their doctrine condemning them. The Lord also declares that he would cause not only the reformation of the Jews, but the purification of…
Micah 5:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Micah 5:12
- Deuteronomy 18:10-12
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
- Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- Isaiah 8:19-20
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
- Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
- Isaiah 2:6-8
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
- Zechariah 13:2-4
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
- Isaiah 2:18
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
- Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
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Context
- Micah 5:11
And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
- Micah 5:12
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
- Micah 5:13
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
Micah 5:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Asimismo destruiré de tu mano las hechicerías, y no se hallarán en ti agoreros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et je retrancherai du milieu de toi tes images taillées et tes statues, et tu ne te prosterneras plus devant l’ouvrage de tes mains. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich werde deine geschnitzten Bilder und deine Bildsäulen aus deiner Mitte ausrotten, und du wirst dich nicht mehr niederwerfen vor dem Werke deiner Hände. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et perire faciam sculptilia tua et statuas tuas de medio tui, et non adorabis ultra opera manuum tuarum: |