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Micah 5:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among animals of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples  and tears  as it passes through, and there is no one to rescue them.

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They will be like warriors in battle trampling down the mud of the streets. They will fight because the  Lord is with them, and they will put horsemen to shame.


Rise and thresh,  Daughter Zion, for I will make your horns iron and your hooves bronze so that you can crush many peoples. Then you  will set apart their plunder for the Lord, their wealth for the Lord of the whole earth.


On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who try to lift it will injure themselves severely when all the nations of the earth gather against her.


The Lord of Armies will defend them. They will consume and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine. They will be as full as the sprinkling basin, like those at the corners of the altar.


For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.


See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.


When they resisted and blasphemed,  he shook out his clothes  and told them, ‘Your blood is on your own heads!  I am innocent.  From now on I will go to the Gentiles.’


If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet   when you leave that house or town.


Judah is a young lion   – my son, you return from the kill. He crouches; he lies down like a lion or a lioness #– #who dares to rouse him?


how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?  This salvation had its beginning when it was spoken of by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him.


He crouches, he lies down like a lion or a lioness #– #who dares to rouse him? Those who bless you will be blessed, and those who curse you will be cursed.


a lion, which is mightiest among beasts and doesn’t retreat before anything;


Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it.


They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it down from the forests, for they will use the weapons to make fires. They will take the loot from those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.


I will indeed gather  all of you, Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the middle of its pasture. It will be noisy with people.


I will make the lame into a remnant, those far removed into a strong nation. Then the Lord will reign over them  in Mount Zion from this time on and for ever.


Therefore, Israel will be abandoned  until the time when she who is in labour  has given birth; then the rest of the ruler’s brothers  will return to the people of Israel.


Who is a God like you, forgiving iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold on to his anger for ever because he delights in faithful love.


Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbour and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.’


You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,’ says the Lord of Armies.


And if the people  of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the Lord inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.





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