Micah 5:12

10 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.

11 I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

13 I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

14 I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
KJV
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
WEB
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
ASV
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:
DARBY
And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers.
BLB
And I will cut off sorcery from your hand, and those practicing divination will not be unto you.
ÅB
Jeg vil utrydde all trolldom hos deg,
og de som spår av skyene, skal ikke lenger finnes hos deg.
OTB
Jeg vil fjerne trolldomskunster fra din hånd,
Og du skal ikke ha noen spåmenn.
B1930
Og jeg vil utrydde all trolldom hos dig, og folk som spår av skyene, skal ikke lenger finnes hos dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 18:10–12

    Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

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  • Revelation 22:15

    But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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  • Isaiah 8:19–20

    When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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  • Isaiah 2:20

    In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.

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  • Revelation 19:20

    But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

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  • Isaiah 2:6–8

    For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

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  • Zechariah 13:2–4

    And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

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  • Isaiah 2:18

    and the idols will vanish completely.

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