What Does Micah 3:6 Mean in the King James?
Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The one who sells sight eventually loses sight: corrupt perception darkens every source of light.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the part of you that claims to see what is hidden: when perception serves advantage, vision itself goes dark. The collapse reaches every layer, revelation, divination, sun, and day, until no source of light remains available.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie it dissolves is that spiritual insight can be traded for advantage without changing the one who claims to see; here, that trade ends in blindness.
THE ROOT
חָזוֹן
ḥāzôn
GROWS FROM
חזה
ḥ-z-h
to see, behold
The word for vision grows from the verb “to see,” and the same root names the seer. The verse turns the seer’s claim inside out: when vision is made to serve advantage, the capacity to see is lost.
ALSO GROWS
ḥōzeh: one who sees; a seer
חֹזֶה
The seer and the vision share a root, tying the one who claims insight to the insight itself.
maḥăzeh: a vision or appearance
מַחֲזֶה
This related word shows the root’s reach from seeing to what is seen.
מִקְּסוֹם
miqqesem
GROWS FROM
קסם
q-s-m
to practice divination
“divine” in this verse is miqqesem. The Hebrew phrase refers to divination, the practice of seeking hidden knowledge. Micah places it beside prophetic vision, then darkness reaches both: neither claimed revelation nor practiced divination gives the prophets light.
ALSO GROWS
qesem: divination
קֶסֶם
This is the noun behind the verse’s reference to divining.
qōsēm: a diviner
קֹסֵם
The root names both the practice and the person who performs it.
חָשְׁכָה
ḥāšəḵāh
GROWS FROM
חשך
ḥ-š-k
to grow dark; to withhold
“dark” in this verse is ḥāšəḵāh. This root carries both darkness and withholding. The darkness here is not only a dim view; it is light and perception withheld from those who claim to provide them.
ALSO GROWS
ḥōšeḵ: darkness
חֹשֶׁךְ
This is the darkness that overtakes the prophets in the verse.
ḥāšaḵ: to grow dark or to withhold
חָשַׁךְ
The shared root joins obscured sight with what is held back.
THE PATTERN
When those who claim to see become untrue to what they see, light turns into darkness and discernment is withdrawn.
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.THE THREAD
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.The Hebrew noun behind “vision” in both verses is חָזוֹן (ḥāzôn), prophetic revelation. Micah shows its loss among those who claim to carry it; Proverbs shows that the absence reaches the people.
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