Micah · Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
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1 ¡Jerusalén, ciudad guerrera, prepárate para la guerra, refuerza tus murallas pues nos han sitiado y el gobernante de Israel será humillado y maltratado!
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 Pero tú, Belén Efrata, aunque eres sólo un pequeño pueblo de Judá, serás el lugar de donde nacerá el rey que gobernará a Israel. Este rey pertenece a una familia muy antigua y su linaje se remonta hasta tiempos muy lejanos.
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 Dios abandonará a su pueblo en manos de sus enemigos, pero sólo hasta el momento en que la mujer que está embarazada dé a luz a este rey. Entonces todos los israelitas que fueron llevados al exilio volverán a reunirse con sus compatriotas que se quedaron en Judá.
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 En aquel tiempo este rey se levantará con mucho poder y guiará al pueblo de Dios con seguridad y autoridad, como un pastor apacentará a su rebaño con el poder y la grandeza que el Señor su Dios le dará. Y logrará que su pueblo viva seguro y en paz, y su reino se extenderá hasta el último rincón de la tierra.
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 ¡Él será la garantía de nuestra paz! Cuando los asirios invadan nuestra tierra y ataquen nuestras fortalezas, él designará a siete pastores y a ocho grandes líderes para que nos defiendan.
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 Ellos someterán, por medio de su poder y destreza para la guerra, a Asiria, la tierra de Nimrod. Sí, cuando los asirios se atrevan a invadirnos, este rey nuestro nos librará de ellos y los expulsará de nuestra tierra.
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 Entonces, esa nación diezmada de Israel será para el mundo como un rocío suave que lo refresca, como lluvia sobre la hierba que cae sin que persona alguna intervenga. ¡Israel será una bendición para todas las naciones!
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 Pero esa pequeña nación de Israel será también, en medio de tantos pueblos, tan poderosa y temible como un león entre muchos animales indefensos; o como un león entre un rebaño de ovejas, que al pasar las agarra y devora, sin que nadie las pueda librar de sus garras.
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 Es así, Señor, como te levantarás ante tus enemigos y acabarás con todos ellos.
9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.
10 Esto es lo que dice el Señor: «En aquel tiempo destruiré todas las armas en las cuales confías, y desbarataré tus ejércitos.
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 Destruiré tus murallas y demoleré las torres de defensa de tus ciudades.
11 I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.
12 Pondré fin a toda hechicería y no quedarán adivinos ni agoreros a quienes puedes ir a consultar.
12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
13 Destruiré todos tus ídolos y destrozaré tus imágenes, de modo que nunca más rendirás homenaje a dioses que tus propias manos fabricaron.
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 Destrozaré las imágenes de tu diosa Aserá y destruiré las ciudades donde están los templos de tus ídolos.
14 I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
15 Y ejecutaré mi venganza sobre las naciones que se nieguen a reconocerme y a vivir sin seguir mis instrucciones».
15 I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem was the home of Ruth and Boaz and the birthplace of David. Micah named it as the Messiah's birthplace — fulfilled in Jesus' nativity.
Cited in the guide: Micah 5:2; Ruth 1:19; Luke 2:4-7
Cross references (15)
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
- 15 Micah 5:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Psalm 149:7; Isaiah 65:12
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What the Fathers said
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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).
He spoke thus: "And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come forth a Governor, who shall feed My people." Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born, as you can ascertain also from …
And He shall stand, and see, and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord, and in the dignity of the name of the Lord His God: for now shall He be magnified even to the utmost of the earth." The prophet Jonah, not so much by speech as by his own painful experience, prophesied Christ's death and resurrection …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And the place likewise, and the time, he puts down, to bring to our remembrance ancient prophecies; whereof one was uttered by Micah, saying, "And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art by no means the least among the princes of Judah;" and the other by the patriarch Jacob, distinctly marking out to us the time, and setting forth …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Out of thee shall come forth unto Me a Ruler, who shall feed My people Israel: and His goings forth are from the beginning, from days of eternity.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For surely "his goings forth" were not "from of old, from everlasting." And how can that suit him which is said at the beginning, "Out of thee shall He come forth:" Zorobabel not having been born in Judæa, but in Babylon, whence also he was called Zorobabel, because he had his origin there?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)