Mic 5 | EngLXX | STEP | Now shall the daughter of Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall strike the tribesof Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Micah 5

1 Now shall the daughterof Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall strike the tribesof Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 2 And you, Bethleem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to bereckoned among the thousands of Juda;yet out of you shall one come forth to me, to be a ruler of Israel; and his goings forth werefrom the beginning,even from eternity. 3 Therefore shall he appoint themto wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, andthen the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel. 4 And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwellin the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth. 5 And she shall have peace when Assur shall come into your land, and when he shall comeup upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men. 6 And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench:and he shall deliveryou from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts. 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, asdew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sonsof men. 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, asa lion in the forest among cattle, and as alion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carriesoffhis prey, and there is none to deliver. 9 Your hand shall be lifted up against them that afflict you, and all your enemies shallbe utterly destroyed. 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord,that I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of you, and destroy your chariots; 11 and I will utterly destroy the cities of your land, and demolish all your strongholds: 12 and I will utterly destroy your sorceries out of your hands; and there shall be no soothsayersin you. 13 And I will utterly destroy your graven images, and your statues out of the midst of you;and you shall never any more worship the works of your hands. 14 And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of you, and I will abolish your cities. 15 and I will execute vengeance on the heathen in anger and wrath, because they hearkenednot.