Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The mountains shall consume under him, and the valleys shall cleave asunder: like as wax consumeth at the fire, and as the waters run downward.
New American Standard Bible
And the valleys will be split,
Like wax before the fire,
Like water poured down a steep place.
King James Version
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Holman Bible
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,
like water cascading down a mountainside.
International Standard Version
The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will split apart, like wax in the presence of fire and like water gushing down a steep incline.
A Conservative Version
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
American Standard Version
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
Amplified
The mountains shall melt under Him
And the valleys shall be split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.
Bible in Basic English
And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.
Darby Translation
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.
Julia Smith Translation
And the mountains melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax from the face of the fire, as waters cast down in a descent
King James 2000
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Modern King James verseion
And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys shall tear themselves, as wax before the fire, and as waters poured down a steep place.
NET Bible
The mountains will disintegrate beneath him, and the valleys will be split in two. The mountains will melt like wax in a fire, the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope.
New Heart English Bible
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
The Emphasized Bible
Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft, - as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.
Webster
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
World English Bible
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
Youngs Literal Translation
Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 1:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Coming Judgment On Israel
3 For why? Behold, the LORD shall go out of his place, and come down, and tread upon the high things of the earth. 4 The mountains shall consume under him, and the valleys shall cleave asunder: like as wax consumeth at the fire, and as the waters run downward. 5 And all this shall be for the wickedness of Jacob, and the sins of the house of Israel. But what is the wickedness of Jacob? Is not Samaria? Which are the high places of Judah? Is not Jerusalem?
Phrases
Cross References
Nahum 1:5
The mountains tremble for him, the hills consume. At the sight of him the earth quaketh: yea, the whole world, and all that dwell therein.
Psalm 97:5
The hills melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
Amos 9:5
For when the LORD God of hosts toucheth a land, it consumeth away, and all they that dwell therein, must needs mourn: And why? Their destruction shall arise as every stream and run over them, as the flood in Egypt.
Judges 5:4
LORD, when thou departedest out of Seir and camest from the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heaven rained, and the clouds dropped water:
Psalm 68:2
Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melteth at the fire, so shall the ungodly perish at the presence of God.
Isaiah 64:1-3
O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence,
Habakkuk 3:6
He standeth, and measureth the earth. He looketh, and the people consume away, the mountains of the world fall down to powder, and the hills are fain to bow themselves, for his goings are everlasting and sure.
Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw thee, and they tembled, the water stream went away: the deep made a noise at the lifting up of thine hand.
Zechariah 14:4
Then shall his feet stand upon the mount Olivet, that lieth upon the east side of Jerusalem. And the mount Olivet shall cleave in two, eastward and westward, so that there shall be a great valley: and the half mount shall remove toward the north, and the other half toward the south.
2 Peter 3:10-12
Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.