Micah 4:5 “Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will…”

Micah 4:5

Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

World English Bible

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

American Standard Version

For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.

Geneva Bible 1599

For all people will walke euery one in the name of his God, and we will walke in the Name of the Lord our God, for euer and euer.

Darby Translation

For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god; but we will walk in the name of Jehovah, our God for ever and ever.

Young's Literal Translation

For all the peoples do walk, Each in the name of its god — and we, We do walk in the name of Jehovah our God, To the age and for ever.

Bible in Basic English

For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

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Cross references

“all”

2 Kings 17:29 2 Kings 17:34 Jeremiah 2:10 Jeremiah 2:11

2 Kings 17:29 · BSB

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

2 Kings 17:34 · BSB

To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

Jeremiah 2:10 · BSB

Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

Jeremiah 2:11 · BSB

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

“and we”

Zechariah 10:12 Colossians 3:17 Isaiah 2:5 Genesis 17:1 Colossians 2:6 Psalm 71:16

Zechariah 10:12 · BSB

I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.

Colossians 3:17 · BSB

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Isaiah 2:5 · BSB

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

Genesis 17:1 · BSB

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Colossians 2:6 · BSB

Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

Psalm 71:16 · BSB

I will come in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

“the name”

Psalm 48:14 Exodus 3:14 Exodus 3:15 Psalm 145:1 Psalm 145:2

Psalm 48:14 · BSB

For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.

Exodus 3:14 · BSB

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3:15 · BSB

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remember…

Psalm 145:1 · BSB

I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

Psalm 145:2 · BSB

Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

Also

Joshua 24:15 Isaiah 26:8

Joshua 24:15 · BSB

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you a…

Isaiah 26:8 · BSB

Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.

6“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.

Read Micah 4