미가 7:4
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.
Context
This verse from 미가 Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. 미가가 경건한 자가 없는 세상을 탄식한다. 그러나 여호와께 소망을 두어 기다리겠다는 고백이 이어진다. 내가 쓰러질지라도 일어날 것이요 어두움에 앉을지라도 하나님이 나의 빛이 되실 것이다.
다른 번역본
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.
Their best one <FI>is<Fi> as a brier, The upright one--than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen--Thy visitation--hath come. Now is their perplexity.
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.
상호 참조
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For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts …
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle …
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore …
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns …
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more …
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.