Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God.” New Living Translation Then you seers will be put to shame, and you fortune-tellers will be disgraced. And you will cover your faces because there is no answer from God.” English Standard Version the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God. Berean Standard Bible Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.” King James Bible Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. New King James Version So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God.” New American Standard Bible The seers will be put to shame, And the diviners will be ashamed. Indeed, they will all cover their lips Because there is no answer from God. NASB 1995 The seers will be ashamed And the diviners will be embarrassed. Indeed, they will all cover their mouths Because there is no answer from God. NASB 1977 The seers will be ashamed And the diviners will be embarrassed. Indeed, they will all cover their mouths Because there is no answer from God. Legacy Standard Bible The seers will be ashamed, And the diviners will be humiliated. Indeed, they will all cover their mouths Because there is no answer from God. Amplified Bible The seers shall be ashamed And the diviners discredited and embarrassed; Indeed, they shall all cover their mouths [in shame] Because there is no answer from God. Christian Standard Bible Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disappointed. They will all cover their mouths because there will be no answer from God. Holman Christian Standard Bible Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disappointed. They will all cover their mouths because there will be no answer from God. American Standard Version And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And those who are seers of visions shall be ashamed, and the Soothsayers shall be put to shame and all of them shall be covered over their lips because God has not answered them Brenton Septuagint Translation And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them. Contemporary English Version You prophets and fortunetellers will all be disgraced, with no message from me." Douay-Rheims Bible And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God. English Revised Version And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips: for there is no answer of God. GOD'S WORD® Translation Seers will be put to shame. Those who practice witchcraft will be disgraced. All of them will cover their faces, because God won't answer them. Good News Translation Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them. International Standard Version Those who see visions will be put to shame, and the diviners will be disgraced—every one of them— they will cover their faces, because there will be no answer from God.'" JPS Tanakh 1917 And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; Yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; For there shall be no answer of God. Literal Standard Version And the seers have been ashamed, | And the diviners have been confounded, | And all of them have covered their lip, | For there is no answer, O God.” Majority Standard Bible Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.” New American Bible Then the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; They shall all cover their lips, because there is no answer from God. NET Bible The prophets will be ashamed; the omen readers will be humiliated. All of them will cover their mouths, for they will receive no divine oracles." New Revised Standard Version the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God. New Heart English Bible The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God." Webster's Bible Translation Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. World English Bible The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.” Young's Literal Translation And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God. Additional Translations ... Context Rulers and Prophets Condemned…6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. 7Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.” 8As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.… Cross References Leviticus 13:45 A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!' 1 Samuel 28:6 He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets. Isaiah 44:25 who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense, Isaiah 47:12 So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror! Micah 3:4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done. Micah 7:16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf. Zechariah 13:4 And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive. Treasury of Scripture Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. the seers. Exodus 8:18,19 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast… Exodus 9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. 1 Samuel 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) cover. Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. Ezekiel 24:17,22 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men… lips. 1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. 1 Samuel 28:6,15 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets… Psalm 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. Jump to Previous Ashamed Confounded Cover Covered Disappointed Disgraced Diviners Embarrassed Faces Future Indeed Lips Mouths Readers Seers Shame Shamed UpperJump to Next Ashamed Confounded Cover Covered Disappointed Disgraced Diviners Embarrassed Faces Future Indeed Lips Mouths Readers Seers Shame Shamed UpperMicah 3 1. The cruelty of the princes.5. The falsehood of the prophets. 8. The false security of them both. (7) They shall all cover their lips.--As the lepers, who were cut off from all communication with men, so also these false prophets, being cut off from all communion with God, were to "put a covering upon the upper lip." It was also a sign of mourning for one dead, and Ezekiel was commanded to awaken the astonishment of the people by omitting to cover his upper lip when his wife died.Verse 7. - Shall the seers be ashamed. The false prophets shall be ashamed because their oracles are proved to be delusive. They shall all cover their lips; the upper lip; i.e. the face up to the nose, in sign of mourning and shame (see Leviticus 13:45; Ezekiel 24:17, 22). It is equivalent to covering the head for the same reason, as Esther 6:12; Jeremiah 14:4. Septuagint, Καταλαλήσουσι καὶ αὐτῶν πάντες αὐτοί, taking the verb to mean "shall open" (not "cover") their lips against them. For there is no answer of God. There was no revelation (Psalm 74:9; Ezekiel 7:26). Septuagint, Διότι οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἐπακούων αὐτῶν, "Because there shall be none that hearkeneth unto them." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Then the seersהַחֹזִ֗ים (ha·ḥō·zîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2374: A beholder in vision, a compact will be ashamed וּבֹ֣שׁוּ (ū·ḇō·šū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed and the diviners הַקֹּ֣סְמִ֔ים (haq·qō·sə·mîm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 7080: To distribute, determine by lot, magical scroll, to divine disgraced. וְחָֽפְרוּ֙ (wə·ḥā·p̄ə·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 2659: To blush, to be ashamed, disappointed, to shame, reproach They will all כֻּלָּ֑ם (kul·lām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every cover וְעָט֥וּ (wə·‘ā·ṭū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 5844: To wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself their mouths שָׂפָ֖ם (śā·p̄ām) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 8222: The beard because כִּ֛י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction [there is] no אֵ֥ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle answer מַעֲנֵ֖ה (ma·‘ă·nêh) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4617: An answer, response from God. אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Links Micah 3:7 NIVMicah 3:7 NLT Micah 3:7 ESV Micah 3:7 NASB Micah 3:7 KJV Micah 3:7 BibleApps.com Micah 3:7 Biblia Paralela Micah 3:7 Chinese Bible Micah 3:7 French Bible Micah 3:7 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Micah 3:7 The seers shall be disappointed and (Mc Mic. 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