Micah 5:12

Easy-to-Read Version

You will no longer try to do magic. You will have no more fortunetellers.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will remove sorceries from your hands,and you will not have any more fortune-tellers.

Hebrew Names Version
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; And you shall have no soothsayers.

King James Version (1611)
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand, and thou shalt haue no more Southsayers.

King James Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

English Standard Version
and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;

New American Standard Bible
"I will eliminate sorceries from your hand, And you will have no fortune-tellers.

New Century Version
I will take away the magic charms you use so you will have no more fortune-tellers.

Amplified Bible
"I will cut off witchcrafts and sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no more fortune-tellers.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will cut off thine enchanters out of thine hande: and thou shalt haue no more southsayers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you will have fortune-tellers no more.

Legacy Standard Bible
And I will cut off sorceries from your hand,And you will have soothsaying no more.

Berean Standard Bible
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

Contemporary English Version
I will stop you from telling fortunes and practicing witchcraft.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will cut off your carved images and standing-stones from among you; no longer will you worship what your own hands have made.

Darby Translation
And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will destroy the magicians from within your reach; and you shall have no more soothsayers;

Good News Translation
I will destroy the magic charms you use and leave you without any fortunetellers.

Lexham English Bible
And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will not have soothsayers.

Literal Translation
And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and there shall not be ones divining.

American Standard Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

Bible in Basic English
I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
All witchcraftes wyll I roote out of thyne hande, there shall no mo soothsayinges be within thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I will utterly destroy thy sorceries out of thine hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in thee.

English Revised Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

World English Bible
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; And you shall have no soothsayers.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y schal do awei witchecraftis fro thin hond, and dyuynaciouns schulen not be in thee.

Update Bible Version
And I will cut off sorcerers out of your hand; and you shall have no psychics:

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no [more] sooth-sayers:

New English Translation
I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.

New King James Version
I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsayers.

New Living Translation
I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune-tellers.

New Life Bible
I will put an end to your witchcraft, and you will not have people telling your future any more.

New Revised Standard
and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And will cut off incantations, out of thy hand, - and, users of hidden arts, shalt thou not have;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(5-11) and I will take away sorceries out of thy hand, and there shall be no divinations in thee.

Revised Standard Version
and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;

Young's Literal Translation
And have cut off sorcerers out of thy hand, And observers of clouds thou hast none.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All witchcraftes will I rote out of thyne hande, there shall no mo soythsayenges be within the.

Contextual Overview

⁷ But those from Jacob who are still living and scattered among the nations will be like dew from the Lord that does not depend on anyone. They will be like rain on the grass that does not wait for anyone. ⁸ Those from Jacob who are still living are scattered among the nations. But they will be like a lion among the animals in the forest. They will be like a young lion among flocks of sheep. If the lion passes through, he goes where he wants to go. If he attacks an animal, no one can save it. The survivors will be like that. ⁹ You will lift your hand against your enemies, and you will destroy them. ¹⁰ The Lord says, "At that time I will take away your horses, and I will destroy your chariots. ¹¹ I will destroy the cities in your country. I will pull down all your fortresses. ¹² You will no longer try to do magic. You will have no more fortunetellers. ¹³ I will destroy your statues of false gods. I will pull down your memorial stones. You will not worship what your hands have made. ¹⁴ I will destroy the Asherah poles and your false gods. ¹⁵ Some nations will not listen to me, but I will show my anger and get my revenge."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 2:6-8, Isaiah 2:18, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 8:19, Isaiah 8:20, Isaiah 27:9, Zechariah 13:2-4, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 22:15

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:17 - used Lamentations 2:2 - he hath thrown

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalaleel. Mahalaleel was the son of Cainan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand,.... Such as were formerly practised among the Jews, though forbidden them, and in mystical Babylon, or the antichristian church, whose sorceries are mentioned, Revelation 9:21; but nothing of this kind will be found in the Christian church, consisting of Jews and Gentiles, in the latter day; all unlawful arts, cheating and juggling in religious matters, will cease, and be no more:

and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers; or diviners, that cast a mist over people's eyes, and deceived them with false appearances of things; that pretended to know times and seasons, when it was or was not a good day to go abroad, or to make merchandise; that judged by the clouds, and by the position of the heavens, what would come to pass hereafter; and though such sort of men were formerly indulged, connived at, and caressed among the Jews, they should be so no more; nor should they apply to such persons for advice and counsel; nor would they need it, nor should they use it; see Deuteronomy 18:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will cut off the cities of thy land - So God promised by Zechariah, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls; for I will be unto her a wall of fire round about” Zechariah 2:4-5. The Church shall not need the temptation of human defense; for God shall fence her in on every side. Great cities too, as the abode of luxury and sin, of power and pride, and, mostly, of cruelty, are chiefly denounced as the objects of God’s anger. Babylon stands as the emblem of the whole city of the world or of the devil, as opposed to God. Rup.: “The first city was built by Cain; Abel and the other saints heed no continuing city” Hebrews 13:14 here. Cities then will include (Rup.) “all the tumults and evil passions and ambition and strife and bloodshed, which Cain brought in among men. Cities are collectively called and are Babylon, with whom, (as in the Revelations we hear a voice from heaven saying), “the kings of the earth committed fornication and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies” Revelation 18:3; and of which it is written, “And a mighty Angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city, Babylon, be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Revelation 18:21. “Great rest then is promised to holy Zion that is, the Church, when the cities or strongholds of the land (strongholds, as they are, of earthliness) shall be destroyed. For together with them are included all objects of desire in them, with the sight whereof the citizens of the kingdom of God, while pilgrims here, are tempted; whereof the wise man saith, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

The fulfillment reaches on to the Day of Judgment, when the Church shall finally receive glory from the Lord, and be “without spot and wrinkle” Ephesians 5:27. All looks on to that Day. The very largeness of the promise, which speaks, in its fullest sense, of the destruction of things, without which we can hardly do in this life, (as cities or things very useful to the needs of man, (as horses,) carries us on yet more to that Day when there will be no more need of any outward things; Rup.: “when the heavy body shall be changed, and shall have the swiftness of angels, and shall be transported whither it willeth, without chariots and horses; and all things which tempt the eye shall cease; and no evil shall enter; and there shall be no need of divining, amid the presence and full knowledge of God, and where the ever-present Face of God, who is Truth, shall shine on all, and nothing be uncertain or unknown; nor shall they need to form in their souls images of Him whom His own shall see as He Is; nor shall they esteem anything of self, or the work of their own hands; but God shall be All in all.” In like way, the woe on those who obey not the truth, also looks on to the end. It too is final. There is nothing to soften it. Punishments in the course of life are medicinal. Here no mention is made of Mercy, but only of executing vengeance; and that, with wrath and fury; and that, such as they have not heard. For as eye hath not seen, nor heart conceived the good things laid up in store for those who love God, so neither the evil things prepared for those who, in act, shew that they hate Him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 5:12. I will cut off witchcrafts — Thou shalt seek help only in Jehovah thy God. They have had neither soothsayers, images, groves, nor high places, from the captivity to the present day.