Micah 5:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD will abandon Israel only until this ruler is born, and the rest of his family returns to Israel.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:16

Jeroboam sinned and caused the Israelites to sin. Now the LORD will desert Israel.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Don't follow the example of your ancestors and your Israelite relatives in the north. They were unfaithful to the LORD, and he punished them horribly.

Psalm 67:3

Make everyone praise you and shout your praises.

Isaiah 11:11

When that day comes, the Lord will again reach out his mighty arm and bring home his people who have survived in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the land along the coast.

Isaiah 49:6

Now the LORD says to me, “It isn't enough for you to be merely my servant. You must do more than lead back survivors from the tribes of Israel. I have placed you here as a light for other nations; you must take my saving power to everyone on earth.”

Jeremiah 23:5

Some day I will appoint an honest king from the family of David, a king who will be wise and rule with justice.

Jeremiah 31:1

The LORD said: Israel, I promise that some day all your tribes will again be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 34:16

to look for those that are lost and bring back the ones that wander off, to bandage those that are hurt and protect the ones that are weak. I will also slaughter those that are fat and strong, because I always do right.

Hosea 11:8

Israel, I can't let you go. I can't give you up. How could I possibly destroy you as I did the towns of Admah and Zeboiim? I just can't do it. My feelings for you are much too strong.

Hosea 2:14

Israel, I, the LORD, will lure you into the desert and speak gently to you.

Hosea 2:9

So I'll hold back the harvest of grain and grapes. I'll take back my wool and my linen that cover her body.

Amos 5:15

Choose good instead of evil! See that justice is done. Perhaps I, the LORD All-Powerful, will be kind to what's left of your people.

Micah 4:4

Everyone will find rest beneath their own fig trees or grapevines, and they will live in peace. This is a solemn promise of the LORD All-Powerful.

Micah 4:7

Then the lame and the outcasts will belong to my people and become a strong nation. I, the LORD, will rule them from Mount Zion for ever.

Micah 5:7

A few of Jacob's descendants survived and are scattered among the nations. But the LORD will let them cover the earth like dew and rain that refreshes the soil.

Micah 5:8

At present they are scattered, but later they will attack, as though they were fierce lions pouncing on sheep. Their enemies will be torn to shreds, with no one to save them;

Micah 6:14

You will eat, but still be hungry; you will store up goods, but lose everything— I, the LORD, will let it all be captured in war.

Micah 7:13

Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.

Zechariah 10:6

I will strengthen the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. And I will show mercy because I am the LORD, their God. I will answer their prayers and bring them home. Then it will seem as though I had never rejected them.

Matthew 1:21

Then after her baby is born, name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 12:50

Anyone who obeys my Father in heaven is my brother or sister or mother.”

Matthew 25:40

The king will answer, “Whenever you did it for any of my people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for me.”

Romans 8:29

and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so that his Son would be the first of many children.