Verse List for MIC 7:4

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OET (OET-RV) The best of them is like a thorn-bush. ⇔ ≈ The most upright is worse than a prickly hedge. ⇔ It’s the day foretold by your watchmen— ⇔ the day of your punishment. ⇔ Now is the time of their confusion.

OET-LV Their _good _of_person is_like_a _thorn-bush an _upright_person more_than _a _thorn _hedge the _day _of your _watchmen punishment _of_your it _has _come now confusion _of_their it _will _be.

ULT The best of them, is like a brier; ⇔  the upright, worse than a thorn hedge. ⇔ The day of your watchers, your visitation, has come. ⇔  Now their confusion will be.

UST Even the best people among them are harmful, ⇔  and even those who seem the most honest cause people pain. ⇔ The day that the prophets foretold, ⇔  the day when God will punish those who do evil things, is coming soon. ⇔  This is when they will panic.

BSB & MSB The best of them [is] like a brier; ⇔  the most upright [is sharper] than a hedge of thorns. ⇔ The day for your watchmen has come, ⇔  [the day of] your visitation.[fn] ⇔  Now is [the time] of their confusion.

OEB ⇔  The best of them are like a thorn thicket, ⇔ their most upright like a prickly hedge. ⇔ The day of their punishment has come, ⇔ now will be their confusion!

WEBBE & WMBB The best of them is like a brier. ⇔  The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. ⇔ The day of your watchmen, ⇔  even your visitation, has come; ⇔  now is the time of their confusion.

NET The best of them is like a thorn; ⇔ the most godly among them are more dangerous than a row of thorn bushes. ⇔ The day you try to avoid by posting watchmen – ⇔ your appointed time of punishment – is on the way, ⇔ and then you will experience confusion.

LSV Their best one [is] as a brier,
The upright one—than a thorn-hedge,
The day of your watchmen—Your visitation—has come. Now is their perplexity.

FBV Even the best of them is like a thorny bush, the most honest like a thorn hedge. Your day of judgment that was announced by the prophets,[fn] your time of punishment, has arrived. You're thrown into complete confusion.

T4T Even the best people are as worthless [SIM] as briers; ⇔  the people who are considered by others to be [IRO] the most honest are worse than clumps of thornbushes. ⇔ But, Yahweh will soon judge them; ⇔  now is the time that he will punish people, ⇔  a time when they will be very confused because of being defeated.

LEB • The best of them is like a brier;
• the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.
• The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come;
• now their confusion will come.

BBE The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.

Moff The best of them are no better than briars, ⇔ the straightest are like thorns twisted in a hedge. ⇔ Their hour of punishment is coming; ⇔ it will be wrack and ruin.

JPS The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

ASV The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

DRA He that is best among them, is as a brier: and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.

YLT Their best one [is] as a brier, The upright one — than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen — Thy visitation — hath come. Now is their perplexity.

Drby The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, [worse] than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.

RV The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
(The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy/your watchmen, even thy/your visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.)

SLT Their good as the thorn, the upright more than the thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchings and thy reviewings came; now shall be their perplexity.

Wbstr The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

KJB-1769 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
(The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy/your watchmen and thy/your visitation cometh/comes; now shall be their perplexity.)

KJB-1611 The best of them is as a brier: the most vpright is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and thy visitation commeth; now shall be their perplexitie.
(The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper then a thorn hedge: the day of thy/your watchmen, and thy/your visitation cometh/comes; now shall be their perplexity.)

Bshps The best of them is as bryer, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and of thy visitation commeth: then shalbe their confusion.
(The best of them is as brier, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorn hedge: the day of thy/your watchmen, and of thy/your visitation cometh/comes: then shall be their confusion.)

Gnva The best of them is as a brier, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation commeth: then shalbe their confusion.
(The best of them is as a brier, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorn hedge: the day of thy/your watchmen and thy/your visitation cometh/comes: then shall be their confusion.)

Cvdl The best off the is but as a thistle, and the most rightuous of them is but as a brere in the hedge But when the daye of thy preachers commeth, yt thou shalt be vysited: the shal they be waisted a waye.
(The best off the is but as a thistle, and the most righteous of them is but as a brere in the hedge But when the day of thy/your preachers cometh/comes, it thou/you shalt/shall be visited: the shall they be wasted a way.)

Wycl He that is best in hem, is as a paluyre; and he that is riytful, is as a thorn of hegge. The dai of thi biholdyng, thi visityng cometh, now schal be distriyng of hem.
(He that is best in hem, is as a paluyre; and he that is rightful, is as a thorn of hedge. The day of thy/your beholding, thy/your visiting cometh/comes, now shall be destroying of hem.)

Luth Der Beste unter ihnen ist wie ein Dorn und der Redlichste wie eine Hecke. Aber wenn der Tag deiner Prediger kommen wird, wenn du heimgesucht sollst werden, da werden sie dann nicht wissen, wo aus.
(The Beste under to_them is as/like a Dorn and the/of_the Redlichste as/like a/one Hecke. But when the/of_the day your(s) preacher coming becomes, when you(sg) visited/haunted should become, there become they/she/them then not realise, where out.)

ClVg Qui optimus in eis est, quasi paliurus, et qui rectus, quasi spina de sepe. Dies speculationis tuæ, visitatio tua venit: nunc erit vastitas eorum.
(Who the_best in/into/on to_them it_is, as_if paliurus, and who/which straight/righteous, as_if thorn from/about sepe. The_day watchtowertionis yours, a_visit your he_came: now will_be devastation their.)

UHB טוֹבָ֣⁠ם כְּ⁠חֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִ⁠מְּסוּכָ֑ה י֤וֹם מְצַפֶּ֨י⁠ךָ֙ פְּקֻדָּתְ⁠ךָ֣ בָ֔אָה עַתָּ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה מְבוּכָתָֽ⁠ם׃ ‡

BrLXX ὡς σὴς ἐκτρώγων, καὶ βαδίζων ἐπὶ κανόνος ἐν ἡμέρᾳ σκοπιᾶς· οὐαὶ οὐαὶ, αἱ ἐκδικήσεις σου ἥκασι, νῦν ἔσονται κλαυθμοὶ αὐτῶν.

BrTr therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.