The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
MicahMicah 5
The Rule of the Deliverer from Bethlehem | |
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Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. |
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¶ But thou, Bethlehem Eph’ratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; Mt. 2.6 · Joh. 7.42 whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. |
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Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. |
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And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. |
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¶ And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. |
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And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod Gen. 10.8-11 in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. |
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¶ And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. |
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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. |
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Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. |
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¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: |
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and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds: |
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and I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: |
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thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. |
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And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. |
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And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. |
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