Micah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Micah 5 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 And thou, Bethleem, house of Ephratha, art few in number to be [reckoned] among the thousands of Juda; [yet] out of thee shall one come forth to me, to be a ruler of Israel; and his goings forth were from the beginning, [even] from eternity.
1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
2 Therefore shall he appoint them [to wait] till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and [then] the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
3 And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.
3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
4 And she shall have peace when Assur shall come into your land, and when he shall come up upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men.
4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
5 And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver [you] from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.
5 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
6 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.
6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a [lion's] whelp among flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off [his prey], and there is none to deliver.
7 The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man nor wait for the sons of men.
8 Thine hand shall be lifted up against them that afflict thee, and all thine enemies shall be utterly destroyed.
8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, [that] I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of thee, and destroy thy chariots:
9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
10 and I will utterly destroy the cities of thy land, and demolish all thy strong-holds:
10 “It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots.
11 and I will utterly destroy thy sorceries out of thine hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in thee.
11 I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.
12 And I will utterly destroy thy graven images, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt never any more worship the works of thine hands.
12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
13 And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of thee, and I will abolish thy cities.
13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
14 And I will execute vengeance on the heathen in anger and wrath, because they hearkened not.
14 I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities. 15 I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”
Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Lamentations 3:30; Job 16:10; Matthew 26:67; John 19:3; Isaiah 33:22
- 2 Matthew 2:6; John 7:42; Luke 1:31–33; Isaiah 9:6–7; Psalm 90:2
- 3 Revelation 12:1–2; Micah 4:7; Romans 9:27–28; Matthew 1:21; Isaiah 10:20–21
- 4 Isaiah 40:10–11; Psalm 23:1–2; Luke 1:32; Micah 7:14; John 10:27–30
- 5 Luke 2:14; John 14:27; Zechariah 10:3; Isaiah 9:6–7; Job 5:19
- 6 Genesis 10:8–11; Isaiah 14:25; Luke 1:74; Isaiah 14:2; 2 Chronicles 33:11
- 7 Psalm 72:6; Micah 5:3; Isaiah 44:3; Deuteronomy 32:2; Hosea 14:5
- 8 Zechariah 10:5; Micah 4:13; Psalm 2:8–12; Isaiah 41:15–16; Zechariah 12:3
- 9 Isaiah 26:11; Psalm 21:8; Isaiah 11:14; Isaiah 14:2–4; Psalm 10:12
- 10 Zechariah 9:10; Hosea 14:3; Psalm 33:16–17; Psalm 20:7–8; Isaiah 2:7
- 11 Isaiah 2:12–17; Zechariah 4:6; Isaiah 6:11; Ezekiel 38:11; Amos 5:9
- 12 Deuteronomy 18:10–12; Revelation 22:15; Isaiah 8:19–20; Isaiah 2:20; Revelation 19:20
- 13 Ezekiel 6:9; Ezekiel 36:25; Zechariah 13:2; Ezekiel 37:23; Hosea 14:3
- 14 Exodus 34:13
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)