Micah 5:12
New International Version
I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.

New Living Translation
I will put an end to all witchcraft, and there will be no more fortune-tellers.

English Standard Version
and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;

Berean Standard Bible
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

King James Bible
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

New King James Version
I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsayers.

New American Standard Bible
“I will eliminate sorceries from your hand, And you will have no fortune-tellers.

NASB 1995
“I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you will have fortune-tellers no more.

NASB 1977
“I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you will have fortunetellers no more.

Legacy Standard Bible
And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you will have soothsaying no more.

Amplified Bible
“I will cut off witchcrafts and sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no more fortune-tellers.

Christian Standard Bible
I will remove sorceries from your hands, and you will not have any more fortune-tellers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will remove sorceries from your hands, and you will not have any more fortune-tellers.

American Standard Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

Contemporary English Version
I will stop you from telling fortunes and practicing witchcraft.

English Revised Version
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will destroy your sorcerers, and you will have no more fortunetellers.

Good News Translation
I will destroy the magic charms you use and leave you without any fortunetellers.

International Standard Version
I will render your witchcraft powerless, and mediums will no longer exist among you.

Majority Standard Bible
I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

NET Bible
I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.

New Heart English Bible
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more sooth-sayers:

World English Bible
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And have cut off sorcerers out of your hand, "" And observers of clouds—you have none.

Young's Literal Translation
And have cut off sorcerers out of thy hand, And observers of clouds thou hast none.

Smith's Literal Translation
And I cut off sorceries from thy hand, and they practicing magic shall not be to thee.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
and I will take away sorceries out of thy hand, and there shall be no divinations in thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
and I will take away evil-doing from your hand, and there will be no divinations among you.

New American Bible
I will destroy the sorcery you practice, and there shall no longer be soothsayers among you.

New Revised Standard Version
and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And I will destroy the magicians from within your reach; and you shall have no more soothsayers;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I shall destroy the enchantments of your hands, and you shall have demons no more
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; And thou shalt have no more soothsayers;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and I will utterly destroy thy sorceries out of thine hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in thee.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Remnant of Jacob
11I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds. 12I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers. 13I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, / casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. / For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

Isaiah 47:9-13
These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells. / You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ / But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly. ...

Leviticus 19:26
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.

2 Kings 21:6
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

2 Chronicles 33:6
He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

Jeremiah 27:9-10
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ / For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.

Ezekiel 13:18-23
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own? / You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived. / Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds. ...

Nahum 3:4
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

Zechariah 10:2
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Acts 8:9-11
Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great, / and all the people, from the least to the greatest, heeded his words and said, “This man is the divine power called the Great Power.” / They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.

Acts 13:6-8
They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, / an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, a man of intelligence, summoned Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God. / But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Revelation 9:20-21
Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. / Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.

Revelation 18:23
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”


Treasury of Scripture

And I will cut off witchcrafts out of your hand; and you shall have no more soothsayers:

Isaiah 2:6-8,18,20
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers…

Isaiah 8:19,20
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? …

Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

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I will cut off
The phrase "I will cut off" is a declaration of divine intervention and judgment. In the Hebrew text, the word used here is "כרת" (karat), which often implies a decisive action, such as cutting a covenant or cutting off life. This indicates God's authoritative power to remove or destroy what is contrary to His will. Historically, this reflects God's commitment to purify His people by removing practices that lead them away from Him.

the sorceries
The term "sorceries" comes from the Hebrew word "כשפים" (keshafim), which refers to practices of magic or witchcraft. In ancient times, these practices were common among pagan nations and were strictly forbidden for the Israelites (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). Sorcery was seen as an attempt to manipulate spiritual forces, which is contrary to trusting in God's sovereignty. This highlights God's desire for His people to rely solely on Him rather than seeking power or knowledge through forbidden means.

from your hand
The phrase "from your hand" suggests personal involvement and responsibility. The "hand" in biblical terms often symbolizes power, action, or possession. By stating that sorceries will be cut off from their hand, it implies that the people were actively engaging in these practices. This serves as a call to repentance and a return to righteous living, emphasizing that God's people should not hold onto or practice what is detestable to Him.

and you will have no fortune-tellers
The term "fortune-tellers" is translated from the Hebrew "עננים" (ananim), which refers to those who claim to predict the future or reveal hidden knowledge through divination. Such practices were prevalent in surrounding cultures and were a temptation for the Israelites. The prohibition against fortune-tellers underscores the importance of seeking guidance and wisdom from God alone. This reflects a broader biblical theme that true knowledge and prophecy come from God, not from human or demonic sources.

Verse 12. - Witchcrafts. Magic and sorcery, which were much practised in Syria and Palestine, as in Chaldea, the literature of which country consists in great part of spells and charms. It is to the belief in the efficacy of such incantations that we owe the episode of Balak and Balaam (Numbers 22-24.), and the enactments in the Law; e.g. Deuteronomy 18:10, etc. (comp. Isaiah 2:6; Isaiah 47:12). Septuagint, τὰ φάρμακά σου, "thy poisons;" Vulgate, maleficia. Soothsayers; properly, cloud diviners, or storm makers; either persons who professed to divine by means of the shape and colour of clouds, or, as the old Scandinavian witches, charlatans who assumed the power of musing and directing storms. Cheyne compares the common name of sorcerers among savages, "rain makers."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will cut
וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י (wə·hiḵ·rat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

the sorceries
כְשָׁפִ֖ים (ḵə·šā·p̄îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3785: Sorcery

from your hand,
מִיָּדֶ֑ךָ (mî·yā·ḏe·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

and you will have
יִֽהְיוּ־ (yih·yū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

no
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

fortune-tellers.
וּֽמְעוֹנְנִ֖ים (ū·mə·‘ō·wn·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6049: To act covertly, practise magic


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