Cross references

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier;

the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns.

The day for your watchmen has come,

the day of your visitation.

Now is the time of their confusion.

Micah 7:4 BSB
  1. a Or your punishment

Micah 7:4 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 22:5 (10 votes) and Ezekiel 2:6 (7 votes). 41 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Deuteronomy 1 to Hebrews 6.

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Which verses does Micah 7:4 point to?

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

  1. Isaiah 22:510 votes

    For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

  2. But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

  3. What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

  4. But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

  5. The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility. The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

  6. Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

  7. Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

  8. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

  9. Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.’ But say to them: ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,

  10. Amos 8:22 votes

    “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

  11. Nahum 1:102 votes
  12. Luke 21:252 votes

Which verses point to Micah 7:4?

The 10 strongest of 41.