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Good News Translation

Micah 1:9

Samaria's wounds cannot be healed, and Judah is about to suffer in the same way; destruction has reached the gates of Jerusalem itself, where my people live."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Thompson Chain Reference - Beauty-Disfigurement;   Disease, Spiritual;   Health-Disease;   Sin;   Spiritual;   Wounds of Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Micah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Micah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Micah;   Micah, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Wound;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Judah, Kingdom of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For her wound is incurableand has reached even Judah;it has approached my people’s city gate,as far as Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Yehudah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Yerushalayim.
King James Version (1611)
For her wound is incurable, for it is come vnto Iudah: he is come vnto the gate of my people, euen to Ierusalem.
King James Version
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible
For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
New Century Version
because Samaria's wound cannot be healed. It will spread to Judah; it will reach the city gate of my people, all the way to Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
For Samaria's wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; The enemy has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For her plagues are grieuous: for it is come into Iudah: the enemie is come vnto the gate of my people, vnto Ierusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
Legacy Standard Bible
For her wound is incurable,For it has come to Judah;It has reached the gate of my people,Even to Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
Contemporary English Version
The nation is fatally wounded. Judah is doomed. Jerusalem will fall.
Complete Jewish Bible
For her wound cannot be healed, and now it is coming to Y'hudah as well; it reaches even to the gate of my people, to Yerushalayim itself.
Darby Translation
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Easy-to-Read Version
Samaria's wound cannot be healed. Her disease has spread to Judah. It has reached the city gate of my people; it has spread all the way to Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
For her wound is very painful; and disaster has reached Judah; it has come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Lexham English Bible
For her wounds are incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
American Standard Version
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For her wound is incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For their wounde is past remedie, it is come into Iuda, and hath touched the gate of my people at Hierusalem alredie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
World English Bible
For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For wounde therof is dispeirid; for it cam til to Juda, it touchide the yate of my puple, til to Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah; it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.
New English Translation
For Samaria's disease is incurable. It has infected Judah; it has spread to the leadership of my people and has even contaminated Jerusalem!
New King James Version
For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Judah; It has come to the gate of My people-- To Jerusalem.
New Living Translation
For my people's wound is too deep to heal. It has reached into Judah, even to the gates of Jerusalem.
New Life Bible
For her hurt cannot be cured. It has come to Judah. It has come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
New Revised Standard
For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For dangerous are her wounds, - for she hath come as far as Judah, she hath reached as far as the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
For mortal [are] her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people -- to Jerusalem.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for their woude is past remedy: And why? it is come in to Iuda, & hath touched ye porte of my people at Ierusale allredy.

Contextual Overview

8 Then Micah said, "Because of this I will mourn and lament. To show my sorrow, I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and wail like an ostrich. 9 Samaria's wounds cannot be healed, and Judah is about to suffer in the same way; destruction has reached the gates of Jerusalem itself, where my people live." 10 Don't tell our enemies in Gath about our defeat; don't let them see you weeping. People of Beth Leaphrah, show your despair by rolling in the dust! 11 You people of Shaphir, go into exile, naked and ashamed. Those who live in Zaanan do not dare to come out of their city. When you hear the people of Bethezel mourn, you will know that there is no refuge there. 12 The people of Maroth anxiously wait for relief, because the Lord has brought disaster close to Jerusalem. 13 You that live in Lachish, hitch the horses to the chariots. You imitated the sins of Israel and so caused Jerusalem to sin. 14 And now, people of Judah, say good-bye to the town of Moresheth Gath. The kings of Israel will get no help from the town of Achzib. 15 People of Mareshah, the Lord will hand you over to an enemy, who is going to capture your town. The leaders of Israel will go and hide in the cave at Adullam. 16 People of Judah, cut off your hair in mourning for the children you love. Make yourselves as bald as vultures, because your children will be taken away from you into exile.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

her wound is incurable: or, she is grievously sick of her wounds, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6, Jeremiah 15:18, Jeremiah 30:11-15

it: 2 Kings 18:9-13, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8

he: Micah 1:12, 2 Chronicles 32:1-23, Isaiah 10:28-32, Isaiah 37:22-36

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:17 - thy seed Isaiah 24:12 - General Jeremiah 9:19 - a voice Jeremiah 30:15 - thy sorrow Jeremiah 46:11 - in vain Hosea 5:13 - his wound Nahum 3:19 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, when God created the universe,
Genesis 1:2
the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Spirit of God was moving over the water.
Genesis 1:5
and he named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening passed and morning came—that was the first day.
Genesis 1:6
Then God commanded, "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places"—and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it.
Genesis 1:8
He named the dome "Sky." Evening passed and morning came—that was the second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"—and it was done.
Genesis 1:11
Then he commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit"—and it was done.
Genesis 1:28
blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.
Genesis 1:29
I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat;
Job 26:7
God stretched out the northern sky and hung the earth in empty space.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For her wound [is] incurable,.... Or her "stroke [is] desperate" e. The ruin of Samaria, and the ten tribes, was inevitable; the decree being gone forth, and they hardened in their sins, and continuing in their impenitence; and their destruction was irrevocable; they were not to be restored again, nor are they to this day; nor will be till the time comes that all Israel shall be saved: or "she is grievously sick of her wounds"; just ready to die, upon the brink of ruin, and no hope of saving her; this is the cause and reason of the above lamentation of the prophet: and what increased his grief and sorrow the more was,

for it is come unto Judah; the calamity has reached the land of Judah; it stopped not with Israel or the ten tribes, but spread itself into the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; for the Assyrian army, having taken Samaria, and carried Israel captive, in a short time, about seven or eight years, invaded Judea, and took the fenced cities of Judah in Hezekiah's time, in which Micah prophesied;

he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem; Sennacherib, king of Assyria, having taken the fenced cities, came up to the very gates of Jerusalem, and besieged it, where the courts of judicature were kept, and the people resorted to, to have justice done them; and Micah, being of the tribe of Judah, calls them his people, and was the more affected with their distress.

e אנושה מכותיה "desperata est plaga ejus", V. L. "plagae ejus", Montanus, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For her - Samaria’s

Wound - o, (literally, her wounds, or strokes, (the word is used especially of those inflicted by God, (Leviticus 26:21; Numbers 11:33; Deuteronomy 28:59, Deuteronomy 28:61, etc.) each, one by one,) is incurable The idiom is used of inflictions on the body politic (Nahum 3:0 ult.; Jeremiah 30:12, Jeremiah 30:15) or the mind , for which there is no remedy. The wounds were very sick, or incurable, not in themselves or on God’s part, but on Israel’s. The day of grace passes away at last, when man has so steeled himself against grace, as to be morally dead, having deadened himself to all capacity of repentance.

For it is come unto - (quite up to) Judah; he, (the enemy,) is come (literally, hath reached, touched,) to (quite up to) the gate of my people, even to (quite up to) Jerusalem Jerome: “The same sin, yea, the same punishment for sin, which overthrew Samaria, shall even come unto, quite up to Judah. Then the prophet suddenly changes the gender, and, as Scripture so often does, speaks of the one agent, the center and impersonation of the coming evil, as sweeping on over Judah, quite up to the gate of his people, quite up to Jerusalem. He does not say here, whether Jerusalem would be taken; and so, it seems likely that he speaks of a calamity short of excision. Of Israel’s wounds only he here says, that they are incurable; he describes the wasting of even lesser places near or beyond Jerusalem, the flight of their inhabitants. Of the capital itself he is silent, except that the enemy reached, touched, struck against it, quite up to it. Probably, then, he is here describing the first visitation of God, when 2 Kings 18:13 Sennacherib came up against all the fenced cities of Judah and took them, but Jerusalem was spared. God’s judgments come step by step, leaving time for repentance. The same enemy, although not the same king, came against Jerusalem who had wasted Samaria. Samaria was probably as strong as Jerusalem. Hezekiah prayed; God heard, the Assyrian army perished by miracle; Jerusalem was respited for 124 years.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. Her wound is incurable — Nothing shall prevent their utter ruin, for they have filled up the measure of their iniquity.

He is come - even to Jerusalem. — The desolation and captivity of Israel shall first take place; that of Judah shall come after.


 
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