Micah 5

¹Now muster your troops , O daughter of troops ; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek .

²But you , O Bethlehem Ephrathah , who are too little to be among the clans of Judah , from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel , whose coming forth is from of old , from ancient days .

³Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth ; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel .

⁴And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God . And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth .

⁵And he shall be their peace . When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces , then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men ;

⁶they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword , and the land of Nimrod at its entrances ; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border .

⁷Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass , which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man .

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 , which , when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver .

⁹Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries , and all your enemies shall be cut off .

¹⁰And in that day , declares the Lord, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots ;

¹¹and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds ;

¹²and I will cut off sorceries from your hand , and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes ;

¹³and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands ;

¹⁴and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities .

¹⁵And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey .