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They will turn in fear to the LORD our God. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/micah/7-17.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/micah/7-17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/micah/7-17.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/micah/1.htm">Micah</a> > <a href="/gntd/micah/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../micah/7-16.htm" title="Micah 7:16">◄</a> Micah 7:17 <a href="../micah/7-18.htm" title="Micah 7:18">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/micah/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/micah/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They will crawl in the dust like snakes; they will come from their fortresses, trembling and afraid. They will turn in fear to the LORD our God. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/micah/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />they shall lick dust like a snake, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their fortresses; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall stand in fear of you.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/micah/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />because of their fear of me, your LORD and God. Then they will come trembling, crawling out of their fortresses like insects or snakes, lapping up the dust. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/micah/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They will lick the dust like a snake, like crawling things on the ground; They will come quaking from their strongholds; they will tremble in fear of you, the LORD, our God. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/micah/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.</p><p class="hdg">lick.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-14.htm">Genesis 3:14,15</a> And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/72-9.htm">Psalm 72:9</a> Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/49-23.htm">Isaiah 49:23</a> And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/60-14.htm">Isaiah 60:14</a> And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/65-25.htm">Isaiah 65:25</a> The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/3-29.htm">Lamentations 3:29</a> Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/3-9.htm">Revelation 3:9</a> Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.</p><p class="hdg">move.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/14-11.htm">1 Samuel 14:11</a> So both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said: Behold the Hebrews come forth out of the holes wherein they were hid.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/18-45.htm">Psalm 18:45</a> The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/16-16.htm">Jeremiah 16:16</a> Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.</p><p class="hdg">worms.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/15-14.htm">Exodus 15:14-16</a> Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/2-9.htm">Joshua 2:9-11</a> I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/9-24.htm">Joshua 9:24</a> They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/9-20.htm">Psalm 9:20</a> Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/2-19.htm">Isaiah 2:19-21</a> And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/64-2.htm">Isaiah 64:2</a> They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/33-9.htm">Jeremiah 33:9</a> And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and a gladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall hear of all the good things which I will do to them: and they shall fear and be troubled for all the good things, and for all the peace that I will make for them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/14-5.htm">Zechariah 14:5</a> And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall flee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias king of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/6-15.htm">Revelation 6:15-17</a> And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/18-9.htm">Revelation 18:9,10</a> And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/micah/7.htm">God's Compassion on Israel</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">16</span>The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf. <span class="reftext">17</span><span class="highl">They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.</span><span class="reftext">18</span>Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/3-14.htm">Genesis 3:14</a></span><br />And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/32-24.htm">Deuteronomy 32:24</a></span><br />They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_samuel/22-46.htm">2 Samuel 22:46</a></span><br />The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/18-45.htm">Psalm 18:45</a></span><br />The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/72-9.htm">Psalm 72:9</a></span><br />Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/25-3.htm">Isaiah 25:3</a></span><br />Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/49-23.htm">Isaiah 49:23</a></span><br />And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/59-19.htm">Isaiah 59:19</a></span><br />And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/65-25.htm">Isaiah 65:25</a></span><br />The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/micah/4-4.htm">Afraid</a> <a href="/amos/9-11.htm">Close</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-29.htm">Crawl</a> <a href="/1_samuel/14-11.htm">Crawling</a> <a href="/hosea/2-18.htm">Creatures</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Dens</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Dread</a> <a href="/micah/7-10.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/micah/7-13.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/micah/6-9.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/micah/7-14.htm">Food</a> <a href="/micah/5-11.htm">Fortresses</a> <a href="/micah/6-12.htm">Full</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-20.htm">Holes</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-23.htm">Lick</a> <a href="/joel/2-7.htm">Move</a> <a href="/micah/5-11.htm">Places</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm">Reptiles</a> <a href="/amos/9-3.htm">Serpent</a> <a href="/amos/5-19.htm">Snake</a> <a href="/micah/5-11.htm">Strongholds</a> <a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">Trembling</a> <a href="/jonah/3-9.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Worms</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/nahum/2-11.htm">Afraid</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-5.htm">Close</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-29.htm">Crawl</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Crawling</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Creatures</a> <a href="/nahum/2-12.htm">Dens</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-7.htm">Dread</a> <a href="/nahum/1-3.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/nahum/1-5.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/nahum/2-11.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/nahum/2-11.htm">Food</a> <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">Fortresses</a> <a href="/nahum/1-2.htm">Full</a> <a href="/nahum/2-12.htm">Holes</a> <a href="/numbers/22-4.htm">Lick</a> <a href="/zechariah/14-4.htm">Move</a> <a href="/nahum/2-4.htm">Places</a> <a href="/acts/10-12.htm">Reptiles</a> <a href="/matthew/7-10.htm">Serpent</a> <a href="/matthew/7-10.htm">Snake</a> <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">Strongholds</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-7.htm">Trembling</a> <a href="/micah/7-19.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Worms</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/micah/7-17.htm">Micah 7:17 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a afraid and be before come crawl creatures dens dread dust earth fear fortresses God ground in lick like LORD of on our out reptiles serpent snake that the their They to trembling turn will you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/micah/7-17.htm">OT Prophets: Micah 7:17 They will lick the dust like (Mc Mic. 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