Micah 2:7 {6}
Good News Translation
Do you think the people of Israel are under a curse? Has the LORD lost his patience? Would he really do such things? Doesn't he speak kindly to those who do right?"

New Revised Standard Version
Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the LORD’s patience exhausted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to one who walks uprightly?

Contemporary English Version
Descendants of Jacob, is it right for you to claim that the LORD did what he did because he was angry? Doesn't he always bless those who do right?

New American Bible
How can it be said, house of Jacob, “Is the LORD short of patience; are these the Lord’s deeds?” Do not my words promise good to the one who walks in justice?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

named.

Micah 3:9 But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.

Isaiah 48:1,2 Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice. . . .

Isaiah 58:1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 2:4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel:

Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

John 8:39 They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.

Romans 2:28,29 For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. . . .

Romans 9:6-13 Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel. . . .

2 Timothy 3:5 Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

is.

Numbers 11:23 And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.

Isaiah 50:2 Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

Isaiah 59:1,2 Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear. . . .

Zechariah 4:6 And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

2 Corinthians 6:12 You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are straitened.

straitened.

Psalm 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 119:70,71,92,93,99-103 Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law. . . .

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

Romans 7:13 Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

walketh.

Psalm 15:2 He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Proverbs 2:7 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

Proverbs 10:9,29 He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten. . . .

Proverbs 14:2 He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way.

Proverbs 28:18 He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

uprightly.

Context
The False Prophets
6Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord. 7Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.8The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?…
Cross References
Psalm 15:2
He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Psalm 84:11
For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Psalm 119:65
Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.

Psalm 119:68
Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.

Isaiah 50:2
Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.

Isaiah 59:1
Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.

Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

Micah 2:6
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