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Mic. 7:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They shall lickv the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like χworms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.

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Psa. 72:9• ⁹The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust. (Psa. 72:9)

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or, creeping things.

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Gen. 3:14‑15• ¹⁴And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.
¹⁵And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel. (Gen. 3:14‑15)

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Psa. 72:9• ⁹The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust. (Psa. 72:9)

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Isa. 49:23• ²³And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me. (Isa. 49:23)

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Isa. 60:14• ¹⁴And the children of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 60:14)

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Isa. 65:25• ²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 65:25)

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Lam. 3:29• ²⁹he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; (Lam. 3:29)

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Rev. 3:9• ⁹Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie; behold, I will cause that they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall know that *I* have loved thee. (Rev. 3:9)

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1 Sam. 14:11• ¹¹And both of them shewed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. (1 Sam. 14:11)

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Psa. 18:45• ⁴⁵Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places. (Psa. 18:45)

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Jer. 16:16• ¹⁶Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them, from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. (Jer. 16:16)

worms.

or, creeping things.

they shall be.

Ex. 15:14‑16• ¹⁴The peoples heard it, they were afraid: A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
¹⁵Then the princes of Edom were amazed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them; All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.
¹⁶Fear and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased. (Ex. 15:14‑16)

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Josh. 2:9‑11• ⁹and said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the land, and that the dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
¹⁰For we have heard that Jehovah dried up the waters of the Red sea before you when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
¹¹We heard of it, and our heart melted, and there remained no more spirit in any man because of you; for Jehovah your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. (Josh. 2:9‑11)

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Josh. 9:24• ²⁴And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing. (Josh. 9:24)

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Psa. 9:20• ²⁰Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. (Psa. 9:20)

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Isa. 2:19‑21• ¹⁹And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.
²⁰In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
²¹to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth. (Isa. 2:19‑21)

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Isa. 64:2• ²--as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence! (Isa. 64:2)

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Jer. 33:9• ⁹And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear of all the good that I do unto them; and they shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. (Jer. 33:9)

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Zech. 14:5• ⁵And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: ye shall even flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And Jehovah my God shall come, and all the holy ones with thee. (Zech. 14:5)

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Rev. 6:15‑17• ¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
¹⁶and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and have us hidden from the face of him that sits upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
¹⁷because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:15‑17)

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Rev. 18:9‑10• ⁹And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication, and lived luxuriously with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
¹⁰standing afar off, through fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment is come. (Rev. 18:9‑10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They shall lick dust like the serpent; like crawling things of the earth, they shall come trembling forth from their closee places. They shall turn with fear to Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "fortified."