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Micah 3:7

The prophets will be ashamed; the omen readers will be humiliated. All of them will cover their mouths, for they will receive no divine oracles."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Mourning;   Prophets;   Sorcery;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Doctrines, False;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divination;   Magic;   Word;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Mourn;   See R;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beard;   Micah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lip;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Micah;   Micah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Prophet;   Soothsaying;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dan;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Confound;   Lip;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Seer;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the seers will be ashamedand the diviners disappointed.They will all cover their mouthsbecause there will be no answer from God.
Hebrew Names Version
The seers shall be put to shame, And the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."
King James Version (1611)
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diuiners confounded: yea, they shall all couer their lips; for there is no answere of God.
King James Version
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
English Standard Version
the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
New American Standard Bible
The seers will be put to shame, And the diviners will be ashamed. Indeed, they will all cover their lips Because there is no answer from God.
New Century Version
The seers will be ashamed; the people who see the future will be embarrassed. Yes, all of them will cover their mouths, because there will be no answer from God."
Amplified Bible
The seers shall be ashamed And the diviners discredited and embarrassed; Indeed, they shall all cover their mouths [in shame] Because there is no answer from God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall the Seers bee ashamed, and the southsayers confounded: yea, they shall all couer their lippes, for they haue none answere of God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The seers will be ashamed And the diviners will be embarrassed. Indeed, they will all cover their mouths Because there is no answer from God.
Legacy Standard Bible
The seers will be ashamed,And the diviners will be humiliated.Indeed, they will all cover their mouthsBecause there is no answer from God.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.
Contemporary English Version
You prophets and fortunetellers will all be disgraced, with no message from me."
Complete Jewish Bible
The seers will be put to shame, the diviners will be disgraced. They will have to cover their mouths, because there will be no answer from God.
Darby Translation
And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.
Easy-to-Read Version
The seers are ashamed. The fortunetellers are embarrassed. None of them will say anything, because God will not speak to them."
George Lamsa Translation
Then the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips because God will not answer them.
Good News Translation
Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.
Lexham English Bible
Then the seers will be disgraced, and those practicing divination will be put to shame. All of them will cover their lips, for there is no reply from God.
Literal Translation
And the seers shall be ashamed, and those divining shall blush, all of them; yea, they shall cover over their mustache, for there is no answer from God.
American Standard Version
And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Bible in Basic English
And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; for there shall be no answer of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall the sears be ashamed, and the soothsayers confounded: yea, they shal al couer their lippes, for they haue none aunswere of God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.
English Revised Version
And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips: for there is no answer of God.
World English Bible
The seers shall be put to shame, And the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen be confoundid that seen visiouns, and dyuynours schulen be confoundid, and alle schulen hile her cheris, for it is not the answer of God.
Update Bible Version
And the seers shall be put to shame, and the fortune-tellers confounded; yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.
New King James Version
So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."
New Living Translation
Then you seers will be put to shame, and you fortune-tellers will be disgraced. And you will cover your faces because there is no answer from God."
New Life Bible
Those who tell what is going to happen in the future will be ashamed. Those who learn about the future using their secret ways will be ashamed. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.
New Revised Standard
the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the men of vision, shall turn pale, and the diviners, shall blush, and shall put a covering upon their lip, all of them, - because there is no answer of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.
Revised Standard Version
the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
Young's Literal Translation
And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shall the vision seers be ashamed, & ye saythsayers confounded: yee they shalbe fayne (all the packe of the) to stoppe their mouthes, for they haue not Gods worde.

Contextual Overview

1 I said, "Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just, 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people's flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot— like meat in a kettle. 4 Someday these sinners will cry to the Lord for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds." 5 This is what the Lord says: "The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him. 6 Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads. 7 The prophets will be ashamed; the omen readers will be humiliated. All of them will cover their mouths, for they will receive no divine oracles."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the seers: Exodus 8:18, Exodus 8:19, Exodus 9:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, Isaiah 44:25, Isaiah 47:12-14, Daniel 2:9-11, Zechariah 13:4, 2 Timothy 3:8, 2 Timothy 3:9

cover: Leviticus 13:45, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22

lips: Heb. upper lip

no: 1 Samuel 14:37, 1 Samuel 28:6, 1 Samuel 28:15, Psalms 74:9, Amos 8:11

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 33:18 - the seers Jeremiah 27:9 - hearken Lamentations 2:9 - her prophets Lamentations 4:14 - have wandered Ezekiel 3:26 - and shalt Ezekiel 20:3 - As I Zechariah 11:17 - the sword Malachi 2:9 - made Matthew 15:14 - And if Luke 6:39 - shall 2 Peter 1:21 - spake

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:5
for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."
Genesis 3:10
The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
Genesis 3:11
And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
Deuteronomy 28:34
You will go insane from seeing all this.
2 Kings 6:20
When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O Lord , open their eyes, so they can see." The Lord opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.
Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.
Luke 16:23
And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded,.... When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they will not be able to lift up their heads, or show their faces, but shame and confusion will cover them:

yea, they shall all cover their lips; stop their mouths, hold their tongues, and be entirely and totally silenced; they will not pretend to utter any other vision or prophecy; nor be able to say one word in defence of themselves, and of what they have before prophesied; every thing in providence being contrary to what they had said, and agreeable to the words of the true prophets; or they shall cover their lips as mourners; as the Targum adds, by way of explanation; see Ezekiel 24:17. It is said e there were two gates in Solomon's temple; one called the gate of the bridegrooms, the other the gate of mourners; to those that entered the latter, if their lip was covered, it was said, he that dwells in this house comfort thee; and so the lips of the false prophets being covered may signify that they were now sorry for what they had done, at least because of the calamities on them and the people; though the former sense seems best:

for [there is] no answer of God; not that they shall be ashamed and silenced because they shall now have no answer of God, for they never had any, which this would imply; but that it shall now be most plain and clear to all that the Lord never spoke by them, and they never had any answer from him; all their visions, divinations, and prophecies, were of, themselves, and not of him; what they delivered was not the word of the Lord, but their own; and this now being discovered and manifest to everyone, wilt put them to utter silence and shame. The Targum is,

"for there is not in them a spirit of prophecy from the Lord.''

e R. Jacob, Sepher Musar, c. 9. apud Drusii Proverb. class. 2. l. 21. sect. 194.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall cover their lips - Literally, the hair of the upper lip . This was an action enjoined on lepers Leviticus 13:45, and a token of mourning Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22; a token then of sorrow and uncleanness. With their lips they had lied, and now they should cover their lips, as men dumb and ashamed. “For there is no answer of God,” as these deceivers had pretended to have. When all things shall come contrary to what they had promised, it shall be clear that God did not send them. And having plainly no answer of God, they shall not dare to feign one then. Jerome: “Then not even the devils shall receive power to deceive them by their craft. The oracles shall be dumb; the unclean spirit shall not dare to delude.” Dionysius: “All this is spoken against those who, in the Church of Christ, flatter the rich, or speak as menpleasers, out of avarice, ambition, or any like longing for temporal good, to whom that of Isaiah Isaiah 3:12 fitteth; the leaders of this people (they who profess to lead them aright) mislead them, and they that are led of them are destroyed.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 3:7. Shall the seers be ashamed — For the false visions of comfort and prosperity which they pretended to see.

And the diviners confounded — Who pretended to foretell future prosperity; for they themselves are now thralled in that very captivity which the true prophets foretold, and which the false prophets said should not happen.


 
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