16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will lay their hands on their mouths and their ears will become deaf.


In Context

13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

15 "As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders."

16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will lay their hands on their mouths and their ears will become deaf.

17 They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the Lord our God and will be afraid of you.

18 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

Micah 7:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:16See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:16The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand on their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.