Micah 5
1Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: 1 He hath laid siege against us: 1 They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 1
2But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, 1 Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, 1 Yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; 1 Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 1
3Therefore will he give them up, 1 Until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: 1 Then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 1
4And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, 1 In the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; 1 And they shall abide: 1 For now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 1
5And this man shall be the peace, 1 When the Assyrian shall come into our land: 1 And when he shall tread in our palaces, 1 Then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, 1 And eight principal men. 1
6And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, 1 And the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: 1 Thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, 1 When he cometh into our land, 1 And when he treadeth within our borders. 1
7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people 1 As a dew from the Lord, 1 As the showers upon the grass, 1 That tarrieth not for man, 1 Nor waiteth for the sons of men. 1
8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people 1 As a lion among the beasts of the forest, 1 As a young lion among the flocks of sheep: 1 Who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, 1 And none can deliver. 1
9Thine hand shall be lift up upon thine adversaries, 1 And all thine enemies shall be cut off. 1
10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, 1 That I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, 1 And I will destroy thy chariots: 1
11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, 1 And throw down all thy strong holds: 1
12And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; 1 And thou shalt have no more soothsayers: 1
13Thy graven images also will I cut off, 1 And thy standing images out of the midst of thee; 1 And thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. 1
14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: 1 So will I destroy thy cities. 1
15And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, 1 Such as they have not heard.