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I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
Micah 5:12 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.
  • KJV And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
  • NKJV I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsayers.
  • NASB “I will eliminate sorceries from your hand, And you will have no fortune-tellers.
  • NLT I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune-tellers.

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Quick answer

God will abolish witchcraft and soothsaying from among His people. It promises the removal of forbidden occult practices.

Overview

Sorcery and divination were pagan attempts to control the future apart from God, and He will cut them off. Their removal cleanses the people from spiritual rebellion. God's purifying work targets not only military pride but also false spiritual reliance.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • Deut 18:10–12Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
  • Isa 8:19–20When 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?
  • Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
  • Zech 13:2–4And 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.
  • Isa 2:18and the idols will vanish completely.
  • Rev 19:20But 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.
  • Isa 2:6–8For 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.
  • Isa 27:9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

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Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

How Micah 5:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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