7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.


In Context

4 Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

6 Therefore night shall be to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

Micah 3:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:7The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:7And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:7And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:7And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips: for there is no answer of God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:7And 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.