Micah 5

Revised Geneva Translation

5 Now assemble your garrisons, O daughter of garrisons. He has laid siege against us. They shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

² “And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, are small among the thousands of Judah. Yet out of you shall He come forth to Me Who shall be the Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from the beginning, from everlasting.”

³ Therefore, He will give them up until the time that she who shall bear has given birth. Then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

⁴ And He shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the Name of the LORD his God. And they shall abide. For now shall He be magnified to the ends of the world.

⁵ And He shall be our peace when Assyria shall come into our land. When He shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise seven shepherds against him, and eight principal men.

⁶ And they shall destroy Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with their swords. Thus shall He deliver us from Assyria when He comes into our land, and when He shall tread within our borders.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among many people, as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass that neither wait for man nor hope in the sons of Adam.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst of many people, as the lion among the beasts of the forest, as the lion whelp among the flocks of sheep, who when he goes through treads down and tears in pieces. And no one can deliver.

⁹ Your Hand shall be lifted up upon your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰ “And it shall happen at that time,” says the LORD, “that I will cut off your horses from your midst. And I will destroy your chariots.

¹¹ “And I will cut off the cities of your land and overthrow all your strongholds.

¹² “And I will cut off your sorceries from your hand. And you shall have no more soothsayers.

¹³ “I will also cut off your idols, and your images from your midst. And you shall no longer worship the work of your hands.

¹⁴ “And I will uproot your asherim from your midst. So will I destroy your enemies.

¹⁵ “And I will execute a vengeance in wrath and indignation upon the heathen which they have not heard.”