Micah 5

1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, ‡ Lam 3:30Isa 33:22Jhn 18:22Jhn 19:3Job 16:10Mat 26:672Co 11:202Ki 25:1-3 +19

daughter of troops.

He has laid siege against us.

They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, ‡ Mat 2:6Jhn 7:42Isa 9:6-7Luk 1:31-33Gen 49:10Isa 11:1Psa 90:2Col 1:17 +40

being small among the clans of Judah,

out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel;

whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. ‡ Rev 12:1-2Mat 1:21Mic 4:7Rom 9:27-28Hos 11:8Isa 10:20-21Mic 4:9-10Heb 1:11-12 +14

Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the LORD, ‡ Isa 40:10-11Psa 23:1-2Luk 1:32Mic 7:141Pe 1:5Jhn 10:27-30Rev 11:151Ch 29:11-12 +25

in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.

They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

5 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land ‡ Luk 2:14Jhn 14:27Zec 10:3Col 1:20-21Ecc 11:2Eph 2:14-17Isa 9:6-7Job 5:19 +21

and when he marches through our fortresses,

then we will raise against him seven shepherds,

and eight leaders of men.

6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, ‡ Gen 10:8-11Isa 14:25Luk 1:742Ch 33:112Ki 15:292Ki 17:3-52Ki 18:9-152Ki 19:32-35 +6

and the land of Nimrod in its gates.

He will deliver us from the Assyrian,

when he invades our land,

and when he marches within our border.

7 The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples ‡ Psa 72:6Isa 44:3Mic 5:3Deu 32:2Hos 14:5Psa 110:3Rom 10:20Hos 6:3 +23

like dew from the LORD,

like showers on the grass,

that don’t wait for man

nor wait for the sons of men.

8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, ‡ Zec 10:5Mic 4:13Hos 5:14Isa 41:15-16Oba 1:18-19Psa 2:8-12Psa 50:22Zec 12:3 +8

among many peoples,

like a lion among the animals of the forest,

like a young lion among the flocks of sheep;

who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces,

and there is no one to deliver.

9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, ‡ Isa 26:11Psa 21:8Isa 11:14Isa 14:2-4Psa 10:121Co 15:25Isa 1:25Isa 33:10 +5

and let all of your enemies be cut off.

10 “It will happen in that day”, says the LORD, ‡ Zec 9:10Hos 14:3Psa 20:7-8Psa 33:16-17Hos 1:7Isa 2:7Jer 3:23

“that I will cut off your horses from among you

and will destroy your chariots.

11 I will cut off the cities of your land ‡ Isa 2:12-17Amo 5:9Ezk 38:11Hos 10:14Isa 6:11Zec 4:6

and will tear down all your strongholds.

12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. ‡ Deu 18:10-12Isa 8:19-20Rev 22:15Isa 2:20Isa 2:18Isa 2:6-8Rev 19:20Zec 13:2-4 +1

You shall have no soothsayers.

13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars from among you; ‡ Ezk 6:9Ezk 36:25Ezk 37:23Hos 14:3Hos 14:8Hos 2:16-17Isa 17:7-8Isa 2:8 +1

and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

14 I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; ‡ Exo 34:13

and I will destroy your cities.

15 I will execute vengeance in anger ‡ 2Th 1:8Mic 5:8Psa 149:7Isa 65:12

and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”