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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Micah 5 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/micah/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/micah/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Micah 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../micah/4.htm" title="Micah 4">◄</a> Micah 5 <a href="../micah/6.htm" title="Micah 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/micah/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Ruler from Bethlehem<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/2.htm">Matthew 2:1–12</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now thou shalt crowd thyself together, O daughter of a troop: besieging there against us; with a rod they will strike the judge of Israel upon the cheek.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And thou, house of bread, of Ephratah, for being small among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth to me he being ruler in Israel; and his goings forth from of old from the days of eternity.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For this he will give them up even till the time she bearing will bring forth: and the remainder of his brethren shall turn back to the sons of Israel.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he stood and fed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God; and they shall dwell: for now shall he be magnified to the ends of the earth.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And this was peace, for Assur shall come up into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces and we raised against him seven shepherds, and eight anointed men.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they ruled the land of Assur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its openings: and he delivered from Assur when he shall come in to our land, and when he shall tread in our bound.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Remnant of Jacob<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../micah/2.htm#12">Micah 2:12–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the remnant of Jacob was in the midst of many peoples as the dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the green herb, which will not wait for man and will not delay for the sons of man.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thy hand shall be raised up against thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And it was in that day, says Jehovah, and I cut off thy horses from the midst of thee, and I destroyed thy chariots.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I cut off the cities of thy land, and I battled down all thy fortresses:<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I cut off sorceries from thy hand, and they practicing magic shall not be to thee.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I cut off thy carved images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I tore up thine images from the midst of thee, and I destroyed thy cities.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I did vengeance in anger and in wrath with the nations, which they heard not.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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