Micah 5 (NET)

Micah 5:1¹(4:14) But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel’s ruler on the side of his face.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 3:30Isa 33:22Job 16:10John 18:22John 19:3Matt 26:672 Cor 11:202 Kgs 25:1-3Acts 23:2Deut 28:49

Micah 5:2²(5:1) As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah— from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the distant past.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 2:6John 7:42Isa 9:6-7Luke 1:31-33Ps 90:2Gen 49:10Isa 11:1Col 1:17Zech 9:91 Sam 17:12

Micah 5:3³So the Lord will hand the people of Israel over to their enemies until the time when the woman in labor gives birth. Then the rest of the king’s countrymen will return to be reunited with the people of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 12:1-2Matt 1:21Mic 4:7Rom 9:27-28Hos 11:8Isa 10:20-21Mic 4:9-10Heb 1:11-12Hos 2:14Hos 2:9

Micah 5:4⁴He will assume his post and shepherd the people by the Lord ’s strength, by the sovereign authority of the Lord his God. They will live securely, for at that time he will be honored even in the distant regions of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:10-11Ps 23:1-2Luke 1:32Mic 7:141 Pet 1:5John 10:27-30Rev 11:151 Chr 29:11-12Ezek 34:13-15Ezek 34:22-24

Micah 5:5⁵He will give us peace. Should the Assyrians try to invade our land and attempt to set foot in our fortresses, we will send against them seven shepherd-rulers, make that eight commanders.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 2:14John 14:27Zech 10:3Col 1:20-21Eccl 11:2Eph 2:14-17Isa 9:6-7Job 5:19Zech 9:10Amos 1:3

Micah 5:6⁶They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with a drawn sword. Our king will rescue us from the Assyrians should they attempt to invade our land and try to set foot in our territory.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 10:8-11Isa 14:25Luke 1:742 Chr 33:112 Kgs 15:292 Kgs 17:3-52 Kgs 18:9-152 Kgs 19:32-35Isa 10:5-12Isa 14:2

Micah 5:7⁷Those survivors from Jacob will live in the midst of many nations. They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 72:6Isa 44:3Mic 5:3Deut 32:2Hos 14:5Ps 110:3Rom 10:20Hos 6:3Jer 14:22Rom 15:19-20

Micah 5:8⁸Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through. It rips its prey and there is no one to stop it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 10:5Mic 4:13Hos 5:14Isa 41:15-16Obad 1:18-19Ps 2:8-12Ps 50:22Zech 12:3Zech 9:152 Cor 2:15-17

Micah 5:9⁹Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 26:11Ps 21:8Isa 11:14Isa 14:2-4Ps 10:121 Cor 15:25Isa 1:25Isa 33:10Isa 37:36Luke 19:27

Micah 5:10¹⁰“In that day,” says the Lord, “I will destroy your horses from your midst and smash your chariots.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 9:10Hos 14:3Ps 20:7-8Ps 33:16-17Hos 1:7Isa 2:7Jer 3:23

Micah 5:11¹¹I will destroy the cities of your land and tear down all your fortresses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 2:12-17Amos 5:9Ezek 38:11Hos 10:14Isa 6:11Zech 4:6

Micah 5:12¹²I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:10-12Isa 8:19-20Rev 22:15Isa 2:20Isa 2:18Isa 2:6-8Rev 19:20Zech 13:2-4Isa 27:9

Micah 5:13¹³I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:9Ezek 36:25Ezek 37:23Hos 14:3Hos 14:8Hos 2:16-17Isa 17:7-8Isa 2:8Zech 13:2

Micah 5:14¹⁴I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst and destroy your idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:13

Micah 5:15¹⁵With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 1:8Mic 5:8Ps 149:7Isa 65:12