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Micah 3:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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Quick Meaning
This verse portrays seers ashamed, diviners confounded, and lips covered because no answer comes from God.
Read It With
- Micah 3:5-8
Read Micah 3:7 with 3:5-8. This verse portrays seers ashamed, diviners confounded, and lips covered because no answer comes from God. The complete unit establishes this movement: Prophets who sell peace and mobilize hostility against nonpaying hearers lose vision; Micah claims the Spirit's power not for spectacle but for courageous truth about injustice and sin.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The section widens accountability from civil rule to religious speech and defines prophetic power by truthful moral disclosure. Within that movement, this verse portrays seers ashamed, diviners confounded, and lips covered because no answer comes from God.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“cover their lips”
In plain language: a gesture of shame or mourning
portrays seers ashamed, diviners confounded, and lips covered because no answer comes from God. Claims of special access can collapse when the speech system is corrupt.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Claims of special access can collapse when the speech system is corrupt.
How It Can Shape Life
- Allow uncertainty and correction without using shame imagery against disabled or mentally ill people.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Micah 3:5-8 — Paid Peace Meets Spirit-Empowered IndictmentSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Micah 3:5-8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Mic.xml, 3:5-8
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Micah with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Micah PDF, printed pp. 1744-1745, translation and notes on 3:5-8
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