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Micah 5:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your fortresses.

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So he answered me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: “Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,”  says the Lord of Armies.


He brings destruction  on the strong,  , and it falls on the fortress.


the roar of battle will rise against your people, and all your fortifications will be demolished in a day of war, like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel. Mothers will be dashed to pieces along with their children.


You will say, ‘I will advance against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely,  all of them living without walls and without bars or gates’   #– #


Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’  And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,


Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.


Without compassion  the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities  of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.


For you have abandoned  your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers  like the Philistines. They are in league  with foreigners.


Therefore Jacob’s iniquity  will be atoned for in this way, and the result of the removal of his sin will be this: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.





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