King James Version
Micah 7:16 in the King James Version says “The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall...” — study this verse from Micah chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.”
Micah 7:16 · KJV
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Feed: or, Rule
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. worms: or, creeping things
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“The nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“and be confounded”
H954properly, to pale, i.e., by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“at all their might”
H1369force (literally or figuratively); by implication, valor, victory
“they shall lay”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“their hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“upon their mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“shall be deaf”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
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