Cross references

Micah 4:9

Why do you now cry aloud?

Is there no king among you?

Has your counselor perished

so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

Micah 4:9 BSB

Micah 4:9 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 8:19 (8 votes) and Isaiah 3:1–7 (3 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Thessalonians 5.

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Which verses does Micah 4:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

  2. For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water, the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder, …

  3. The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

  4. Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

  5. Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

  6. As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

  7. How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?

  8. O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

  9. Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale? How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

  10. The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  11. Hosea 3:42 votes
  12. Hosea 10:32 votes

Which verses point to Micah 4:9?

The 10 strongest of 11.