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Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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KJV King James Version

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

WEB World English Bible

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

ASV American Standard Version

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

Surrounding context — Micah 6

13 Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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וְיִשְׁתַּמֵּ֞רH8104 · sha.marto keep: obey חֻקּ֣וֹתH2708 · chuq.qahstatute עָמְרִ֗יH6018 · om.riOmri וְכֹל֙H3605 · kolall מַעֲשֵׂ֣הH4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: work בֵית־H1004 · betplace אַחְאָ֔בH256 · ach.avAhab וַתֵּלְכ֖וּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: went בְּמֹֽעֲצוֹתָ֑םH4156 · mo.e.tsahcounsel לְמַעַן֩H4616 · ma.anbecause תִּתִּ֨יH5414 · na.tanto give: give אֹתְךָ֜H853 · et[Obj.]לְשַׁמָּ֗הH8047 · sham.mahhorror: destroyed וְיֹשְׁבֶ֙יהָ֙H3427 · ya.shavto dwell לִשְׁרֵקָ֔הH8322 · she.re.qahhissing וְחֶרְפַּ֥תH2781 · cher.pahreproach עַמִּ֖יH5971 · ampeople תִּשָּֽׂאוּ׃ פH5375 · na.sato lift: raise

Cross-references

Jeremiah 51:51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house.Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it].1 Kings 16:25-33But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that [were] before him.Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.Psalm 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.Jeremiah 19:8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.1 Kings 21:25-26But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.Jeremiah 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.2 Chronicles 34:25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.Jeremiah 21:8-9And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.Revelation 2:20Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.2 Chronicles 29:8-9Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.Psalm 1:1Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.1 Kings 18:4For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)Ezekiel 39:26After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid.Daniel 9:16O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us.Hosea 5:11Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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