Micah 5

1Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Deut 28:51 · 1Sam 8:5 · 1Ki 22:24 · 2Ki 24:2 · 2Ki 25:1 · +21 more

2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.Cross-references: Gen 35:19 · Gen 48:7 · Gen 49:10 · Ex 18:21 · Ex 18:25 · Deut 1:15 · +42 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

3Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:16 · 2Chr 30:7 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 66:7 · Jer 31:1 · +16 more

4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.Cross-references: Ex 23:21 · 1Chr 29:11 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 23:1 · Ps 45:3 · Ps 72:8 · +27 more

5He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.Cross-references: Job 5:19 · Ps 72:7 · Prov 6:16 · Prov 30:18 · Prov 30:29 · Eccl 11:2 · +23 more

6They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.Cross-references: Gen 10:8 · 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 17:3 · 2Ki 18:9 · 2Ki 19:32 · 2Chr 33:11 · +8 more

7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man nor wait for the sons of men.Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · Judg 6:36 · Ps 72:6 · Ps 110:3 · Isa 32:15 · Isa 44:3 · +25 more

8The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 50:22 · Ps 110:5 · Isa 41:15 · Hos 5:14 · +10 more

9Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.Cross-references: Ps 10:12 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 106:26 · Isa 1:25 · Isa 11:14 · Isa 14:2 · +7 more

10“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots.Cross-references: Ps 20:7 · Ps 33:16 · Isa 2:7 · Jer 3:23 · Hos 1:7 · Hos 14:3 · +1 more

11I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.Cross-references: Isa 2:12 · Isa 6:11 · Ezek 38:11 · Hos 10:14 · Amos 5:9 · Zech 4:6

12I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.Cross-references: Deut 18:10 · Isa 2:6 · Isa 2:18 · Isa 2:20 · Isa 8:19 · Isa 27:9 · +3 more

13I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.Cross-references: Isa 2:8 · Isa 17:7 · Ezek 6:9 · Ezek 36:25 · Ezek 37:23 · Hos 2:16 · +3 more

14I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.Cross-references: Ex 34:13

15I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”Cross-references: Ps 149:7 · Isa 65:12 · Mic 5:8 · 2Thess 1:8