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


In Context

13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 |As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.|

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

17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will lay their hands on their mouths and their ears will become deaf.

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 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.