KJ3 Literal Translation
Micah 5
Birth of Christ. His kingdom. His conquest.
1Now gather yourself together, daughter of a troop; one sets a siege against us. They shall strike the One judging Israel with a rod on the cheek.
2And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me to become One ruling in Israel; and His goings forth have been from aforetime, from the days of eternity.
3Therefore He will give them until the time the one giving birth has given birth. And the rest of His brothers shall return to the sons of Israel.
4And He shall stand and shepherd us in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He is great to the ends of the earth.
5And this One shall be peace. Assyria, when he shall come into our land, and when he shall walk in our palaces, then we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight anointed of man.
6And they shall feed upon the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at her entrances. And He shall deliver us from Assyria, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our border.
7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers on a blade of grass, which does not wait for man, and not delay for the sons of men.
8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep (who both tramples and tears in pieces if he passes through, and there is none snatching back).
9Your hands shall be high above your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
10And it shall be in that day, I will cut off your horses out of your midst, and I will cause to perish your chariots, a statement of Jehovah.
11And I will cut off the cities of your land and pull down all your fortresses.
12And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and there shall not be ones divining for you.
13And I also will cut off your graven images and your pillars from your midst. And you shall not any more bow down to the work of your hands.
14And I will pluck your Asherahs from your midst, and I will destroy your cities.
15And I will execute vengeance in anger and in fury on the nations, such as they have not heard.
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