Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And the valleys will be split,
Like wax before the fire,
Like water poured down a steep place.
King James Version
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Holman Bible
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,
like water cascading down a mountainside.
International Standard Version
The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will split apart, like wax in the presence of fire and like water gushing down a steep incline.
A Conservative Version
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
American Standard Version
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
Amplified
The mountains shall melt under Him
And the valleys shall be split
Like wax before the fire,
Like waters poured down a steep place.
Bible in Basic English
And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.
Darby Translation
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.
Julia Smith Translation
And the mountains melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax from the face of the fire, as waters cast down in a descent
King James 2000
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Modern King James verseion
And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys shall tear themselves, as wax before the fire, and as waters poured down a steep place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The mountains shall consume under him, and the valleys shall cleave asunder: like as wax consumeth at the fire, and as the waters run downward.
NET Bible
The mountains will disintegrate beneath him, and the valleys will be split in two. The mountains will melt like wax in a fire, the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope.
New Heart English Bible
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
The Emphasized Bible
Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft, - as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.
Webster
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
World English Bible
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
Youngs Literal Translation
Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 1:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Coming Judgment On Israel
3
He will come down and
And the valleys will be split,
Like wax before the fire,
Like water poured down a steep place.
And for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the
Is it not
What is the
Is it not Jerusalem?
Phrases
Cross References
Nahum 1:5
And the hills
Indeed the earth is
The
Psalm 97:5
At the presence of the
Amos 9:5
The One who
And
And all of it rises up like the Nile
And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
Judges 5:4
When You marched from the field of Edom,
Even the clouds dripped water.
Psalm 68:2
As
So let the
Isaiah 64:1-3
That the mountains might
Habakkuk 3:6
He looked and
Yes, the perpetual mountains were shattered,
The ancient hills
His ways are
Habakkuk 3:10
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep
It lifted high its hands.
Zechariah 14:4
In that day His feet will
2 Peter 3:10-12
But
Revelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white