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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• ⁹Before him shall bow dwellers in the desert,{HR}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, cursed [be] thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat 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• ⁹Before him shall bow dwellers in the desert,{HR}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 queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah, and they that wait for me shall not be ashamed. (Isa. 49:23)

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Isa. 60:14• ¹⁴The sons also 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 as one, 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 give of the synagogue of Satan those that say they are Jews and are not but lie: behold, I will make them to come and do homage before thy feet, and know that I have loved thee. (Rev. 3:9)

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1 Sam. 14:11• ¹¹And both of them discovered themselves unto 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• ⁴⁵Sons of a stranger fade away,{HR}And they tremble out of their enclosed 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 after 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• ¹⁴{i}The peoples heard it, they were afraid:{HR}A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia.{HR}{/i}
¹⁵{i}Then the princes of Edom were amazed;{HR}The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them;{HR}All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.{HR}{/i}
¹⁶{i}Fear and dread fall upon them;{HR}By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone;{HR}Till thy people pass over, Jehovah,{HR}Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.{HR}{/i} (Ex. 15:14‑16)

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Josh. 2:9‑11• ⁹{i}and said to the men{/i}, I know, that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
¹⁰For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
¹¹And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:9‑11)

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Josh. 9:24• ²⁴{i}And 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.{/i} (Josh. 9:24)

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Psa. 9:20• ²⁰Put thou fear into them, O Jehovah;{HR}The Gentiles shall know that they are but men. Selah. (Psa. 9:20)

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Isa. 2:19‑21• ¹⁹And men 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 ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
²⁰In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
²¹to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth. (Isa. 2:19‑21)

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Isa. 64:2• ²as fire kindleth brushwood, [as] fire causeth the waters to boil—to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may 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 an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. (Jer. 33:9)

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Zech. 14:5• ⁵And ye shall flee to the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall 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 saints with thee. (Zech. 14:5)

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Rev. 6:15‑17• ¹⁵And the kings of the earth and the great men and the chiliarchs and the rich and the mighty and every bondman and freeman hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
¹⁶and they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
¹⁷for 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 that committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and wail on account of her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
¹⁰standing afar off because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour came thy judgment. (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."

W. Kelly Translation

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