Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,
like water cascading down a mountainside.
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.
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.
Themes
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 1:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Coming Judgment On Israel
3
and coming down to trample
the heights
and the valleys will split apart,
like wax near a fire,
like water cascading down a mountainside.
and the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the rebellion of Jacob?
Isn’t it Samaria?
And what is the high place of Judah?
Isn’t it Jerusalem?
Phrases
Cross References
Nahum 1:5
and the hills melt;
the earth trembles
the world and all who live in it.
Psalm 97:5
at the presence of the Lord—
at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.
Amos 9:5
He touches the earth;
it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn;
all of it rises like the Nile
and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.
Judges 5:4
when You marched from the fields of Edom,
the earth trembled,
the heavens poured
and the clouds poured water.
Psalm 68:2
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
Isaiah 64:1-3
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence
Habakkuk 3:6
He looks and startles the nations.
The age-old mountains break apart;
the ancient hills sink down.
His pathways are ancient.
Habakkuk 3:10
a downpour of water sweeps by.
The deep roars with its voice
and lifts its waves
Zechariah 14:4
On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
2 Peter 3:10-12
But the Day of the Lord
Revelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.