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Mic. 6:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

The Lord’s voice crieth unto the city, and λthe man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

or, thy name shall see that which is.

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Mic. 3:12• ¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:12)

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Isa. 24:10‑12• ¹⁰The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
¹¹There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
¹²In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. (Isa. 24:10‑12)

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Isa. 27:10• ¹⁰Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. (Isa. 27:10)

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Isa. 32:13‑14• ¹³Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
¹⁴Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (Isa. 32:13‑14)

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Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)

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Isa. 66:6• ⁶A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies. (Isa. 66:6)

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Jer. 19:11‑13• ¹¹And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
¹²Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
¹³And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. (Jer. 19:11‑13)

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Jer. 26:6,18• ⁶Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
¹⁸Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Jer. 26:6,18)

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Jer. 37:8‑10• ⁸And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
⁹Thus saith the Lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
¹⁰For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. (Jer. 37:8‑10)

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Hos. 13:16• ¹⁶Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. (Hos. 13:16)

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Amos 2:5• ⁵But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. (Amos 2:5)

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Amos 3:8‑15• ⁸The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
⁹Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
¹⁰For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
¹¹Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
¹²Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
¹³Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,
¹⁴That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
¹⁵And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord. (Amos 3:8‑15)

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Amos 6:1• ¹Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! (Amos 6:1)

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Jonah 3:4• ⁴And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. (Jonah 3:4)

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Zeph. 3:2• ²She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. (Zeph. 3:2)

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2 Kings 22:11‑20• ¹¹And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
¹²And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
¹³Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
¹⁴So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
¹⁵And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
¹⁶Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
¹⁷Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
¹⁸But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
¹⁹Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
²⁰Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. (2 Kings 22:11‑20)

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Psa. 107:43• ⁴³Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. (Psa. 107:43)

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Prov. 22:3• ³A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. (Prov. 22:3)

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Isa. 26:11• ¹¹Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. (Isa. 26:11)

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Hos. 14:9• ⁹Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. (Hos. 14:9)

the man of wisdom shall see thy name.

or, thy name shall seethat which is wisdom.

Ex. 34:5‑7• ⁵And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
⁶And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
⁷Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:5‑7)

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Psa. 9:16• ¹⁶The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. (Psa. 9:16)

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Psa. 48:10• ¹⁰According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. (Psa. 48:10)

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Psa. 83:18• ¹⁸That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. (Psa. 83:18)

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Isa. 30:27• ²⁷Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: (Isa. 30:27)

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2 Sam. 21:1• ¹Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. (2 Sam. 21:1)

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Job 5:6‑8,17• ⁶Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
⁷Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
⁸I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
¹⁷Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: (Job 5:6‑8,17)

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Job 10:2• ²I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me. (Job 10:2)

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Isa. 9:13• ¹³For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. (Isa. 9:13)

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Isa. 10:5‑6• ⁵O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
⁶I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (Isa. 10:5‑6)

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Jer. 14:18‑22• ¹⁸If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
¹⁹Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
²⁰We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
²¹Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
²²Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. (Jer. 14:18‑22)

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Lam. 3:39‑42• ³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. (Lam. 3:39‑42)

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Joel 2:11‑18• ¹¹And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
¹²Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
¹³And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
¹⁴Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?
¹⁵Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
¹⁶Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
¹⁷Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
¹⁸Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. (Joel 2:11‑18)

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Amos 4:6‑12• ⁶And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
⁷And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
⁸So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
⁹I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
¹⁰I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
¹¹I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
¹²Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. (Amos 4:6‑12)

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Jonah 3:5‑10• ⁵So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
⁶For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
⁷And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
⁸But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
⁹Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. (Jonah 3:5‑10)

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Hag. 1:5‑7• ⁵Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
⁶Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
⁷Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. (Hag. 1:5‑7)

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Rev. 3:19• ¹⁹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (Rev. 3:19)

• In the troubles they will face in that coming day they will hear the Lord’s voice speaking to them. (“The Prophecies of Micah” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

Jehovah’s voice crieth unto the city, and wisdom looketh on thy name. Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.