Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This shall the Heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, and stop their ears.
New American Standard Bible
Of all their might.
They will
Their ears will be deaf.
King James Version
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Holman Bible
of
They will put their hands over their mouths,
and their ears will become deaf.
International Standard Version
The nations will look on and will be ashamed in spite of all their power; they will cup their hands over their mouths, and their ears will be deaf.
A Conservative Version
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might. They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf.
American Standard Version
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
Amplified
The [pagan] nations shall see [God’s omnipotence in delivering Israel] and be ashamed
Of all their might [which cannot be compared to His].
They shall put their hand on their mouth [in silent astonishment];
Their ears shall be deaf.
Bible in Basic English
The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.
Darby Translation
The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Julia Smith Translation
The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
King James 2000
The nations shall see and be ashamed at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay [the] hand on [the] mouth; their ears will be deaf.
Modern King James verseion
The nations shall see and be ashamed at all their might; they shall lay their hand on their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
NET Bible
Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.
New Heart English Bible
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
The Emphasized Bible
Nations, shall see, that they may turn pale at all their valour, - they shall lay hand on mouth, their ears, shall be silent:
Webster
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
World English Bible
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
Youngs Literal Translation
See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 7:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Micah's Prayer Answered
15 Marvelous things will I show them, like as when they came out of Egypt. 16 This shall the Heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, and stop their ears. 17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, as the worms of the earth, that tremble in their holes. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and they shall fear thee.
Cross References
Isaiah 26:11
LORD, when thine hand is lift up to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded, when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.
Isaiah 52:15
Even so shall the multitude of the Gentiles look unto him, and the kings shall shut their mouths before him. For they that have not been told of him, shall see him, and they that heard nothing of him, shall behold him.
Job 21:5
Mark me well, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job 29:9-10
when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth;
Job 40:4
"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Psalm 126:2
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with joy. Then said they among the heathen, "The LORD hath done great things for them."
Isaiah 66:18
For I will come to gather all people and tongues with their works and imaginations: these shall come, and see my glory.
Ezekiel 38:23
Thus will I be magnified, honored, and known among the Heathen: that they may be sure how that I am the LORD.'"
Ezekiel 39:17-21
And thou son of man: thus sayeth the LORD God: Speak unto all the fouls and every bird, yea and to all the wild beasts of the field, 'Heap you together and come; gather you round about upon my slaughter that I have slain for you: even a great slaughter upon the mountains of Israel: eat flesh and drink blood.
Micah 5:8
Yea, the residue of Jacob shall be among the gentiles and the multitude of people, as the lion among the beasts of the wood, and as the Lion's whelps among a flock of sheep: which, when he goeth through, treadeth down, teareth in pieces, and there is no man that can help.
Zechariah 8:20-23
Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: There shall yet come people, and the inhabiters of many cities.
Zechariah 12:9
"At the same time will I go about to destroy all such people as come against Jerusalem.
Romans 3:19
Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead; that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets and saints, and to them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them, which destroy the earth."