Micah 7:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

Is as a

Thy

Isaiah 10:3

Jeremiah 8:12

Jeremiah 10:15

Now

Isaiah 22:5

Luke 21:25

General references

Isaiah 59:14

Habakkuk 1:3

Mark 13:12

Bible References

Is as a

But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

Thy

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.

They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Now

For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

"And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,

General references

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.