Micah 3:7 {6}
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Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

Leviticus 13:45
Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and unclean.

1 Samuel 28:6
And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.

Isaiah 44:25
That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish.

Isaiah 47:12
Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.

Micah 3:4
Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

Micah 7:16
The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

Zechariah 13:4
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:

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Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

the seers.

Exodus 8:18,19 And the magicians with their enchantments practised in like manner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not: and there were sciniphs as well on men as on beasts. . . .

Exodus 9:11 Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 9:9 Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.

Isaiah 44:25 That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish.

Isaiah 47:12-14 Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger. . . .

Daniel 2:9-11 If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. . . .

Zechariah 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:

2 Timothy 3:8,9 Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. . . .

cover.

Leviticus 13:45 Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and unclean.

Ezekiel 24:17,22 Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners. . . .

lips.

1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day.

1 Samuel 28:6,15 And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets. . . .

Psalm 74:9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Amos 8:11 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.

Context
Rulers and Prophets Condemned
6Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him. 7Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.8And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.…
Lexicon
Then the seers
הַחֹזִ֗ים (ha·ḥō·zîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2374: A beholder in vision, a compact

will be ashamed
וּבֹ֣שׁוּ (ū·ḇō·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed

and the diviners
הַקֹּ֣סְמִ֔ים (haq·qō·sə·mîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7080: To distribute, determine by lot, magical scroll, to divine

disgraced.
וְחָֽפְרוּ֙ (wə·ḥā·p̄ə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2659: To blush, to be ashamed, disappointed, to shame, reproach

They will all
כֻּלָּ֑ם (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

cover
וְעָט֥וּ (wə·‘ā·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5844: To wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself

their mouths
שָׂפָ֖ם (śā·p̄ām)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8222: The beard

because
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

[there is] no
אֵ֥ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

answer
מַעֲנֵ֖ה (ma·‘ă·nêh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4617: An answer, response

from God.
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


Additional Translations
Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.

And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.

And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips: for there is no answer of God.

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God."

And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.
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