Advent: the promised King
Day 15: Micah 5:1–5
Day 15 of 27 · Sunday, December 13
About the book
Micah
- Who wrote it
- Micah
- When
- About 735–700 BC
- What it’s about
- Judgment on sin, and hope: a Ruler will come out of Bethlehem.
“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
Pray first: Lord, open my eyes to Your word, and help me to do what it says. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Micah 5:1–5
KJV
BSB · modern English help
KJV, with the BSB · modern English help under each verse in lighter type
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.
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, 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; whose goings forth have been from of old, from aeverlasting.
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.
And he shall stand and bfeed 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.
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 cprincipal men.
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Hebrew and Greek meanings: Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries (James Strong, 1894), digital text by Open Scriptures, CC-BY-SA.