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Micah 7:6

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

KJV

Quia filius contumeliam facit patri, et filia consurgit adversus matrem suam : nurus adversus socrum suam, et inimici hominis domestici ejus.

Vulgate

διότι υἱὸς ἀτιμάζει πατέρα, θυγάτηρ ἐπαναστήσεται ἐπὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτῆς, νύμφη ἐπὶ τὴν πενθερὰν αὐτῆς, ἐχθροὶ πάντες ἀνδρὸς οἱ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ.

LXX

For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

ASV

כִּֽי בֵן֙ מְנַבֵּ֣ל אָ֔ב בַּ֚ת קָמָ֣ה בְ/אִמָּ֔/הּ כַּלָּ֖ה בַּ/חֲמֹתָ֑/הּ אֹיְבֵ֥י אִ֖ישׁ אַנְשֵׁ֥י בֵיתֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
הּ
h
pronoun · 11×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
וֹ
v
noun · 34×
י
y
verb · 282×
יִבֹּ֑לוּ
yblv
verb · 25×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Matt 10:35 · adapted
    "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law."
    Micah: daughter against mother — Jesus on family division

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Tim 3:2 — For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
  • Ezek 22:7 — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
  • Gen 4:8 — And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
  • Isa 9:19 — Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
  • John 13:18 — I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
  • Luke 12:53 — The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and th
  • Luke 12:53 — The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and th
  • Luke 21:16 — And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
  • Matt 10:21 — And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
  • Matt 10:35 — For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
  • Matt 10:36 — And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
  • Matt 26:23 — And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
  • Matt 26:49 — And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
  • Prov 30:11 — There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
  • Ps 41:9 — Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
  • Ps 55:12 — For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
  • Song 1:6 — Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.