Micah 5

¹ Now, you shall build yourself a stone dike, daughter of Ephraim; he will place a siege work against us. With a club they will smite the judge of Israel on the cheek. ² And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, inferior to be among the mentors of Judah, from you shall One fare forth for Me to become the Ruler in Israel; yet His farings forth are from aforetime, from days eonian. ³ Wherefore He shall give them up till the season when she who is to bear shall bear, and the rest of his brethren shall return to the sons of Israel. ⁴ And He stands and shepherds His flock in the strength of Yahweh, in the pomp of the name of Yahweh, His Elohim. And they shall dwell, for now shall He be great unto the limits of the land. ⁵ And this One comes to be Peace. When Assyria is entering into our land, and when he is treading in our ground, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight sovereigns of humanity. ⁶ And they graze the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its portals. And He will rescue from Assyria, when he is entering into our land, and when he is treading in our boundaries. ⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall come to be among the nations, within many peoples, as the night mist from Yahweh, and as a shower on herbage, which is not expected by man, nor is awaited by the sons of humanity. ⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall come to be among the nations, within many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the wildwood, and as a sheltered lion among the droves of the flock, which, if it passes, then it tramps, and it tears to pieces, and there is no rescue. ⁹ Your hand shall be high over your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut off. ¹⁰ And it comes to be in that day, (averring is Yahweh), that I cut off your horses within your midst, and I destroy your chariots. ¹¹ I cut off the cities of your land and demolish all your fortresses. ¹² I cut off enchantments from your hand, and cloud consulters shall not be among you. ¹³ I cut off carvings, and your monuments within your midst, and no longer shall you worship the work of your hands. ¹⁴ I pluck up your fetishes of happiness within your midst, and I exterminate your cities, ¹⁵ and I will execute in anger and in fury vengeance to the nations which do not hearken!