KJV King James Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:
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Micah 5:12
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
WEB World English Bible
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.
ASV American Standard Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And have cut off sorcerers out of thy hand, And observers of clouds thou hast none.
Surrounding context — Micah 5
9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
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Deuteronomy 18:10-12There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,Isaiah 8:19-20And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?Revelation 22:15For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;Isaiah 2:6-8Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.Isaiah 2:18And the idols he shall utterly abolish.Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.Zechariah 13:2-4And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.Isaiah 27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
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