Micah 5:12
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy 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
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:19–20
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Read in contextIsaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Read in contextRevelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:6–8
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Read in contextZechariah 13:2–4
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:18
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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