Micah 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew coming from the Lord, like showers on the grass, Which wait for no one, delay for no human being.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—deporting the inhabitants to Assyria.

1 Chronicles 1:10

Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first to be a warrior on the earth.

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the Assyrian king; they captured Manasseh with hooks, shackled him with chains, and transported him to Babylon.

Job 29:22

Once I spoke, they said no more, but received my pronouncement drop by drop.

Psalm 110:3

Yours is princely power from the day of your birth. In holy splendor before the daystar, like dew I begot you.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain coming down upon the fields, like showers watering the earth,

Isaiah 14:2

The nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves on the Lord’s land; they will take captive their captors and rule over their oppressors. Downfall of the King of Babylon.

Isaiah 14:25

To break the Assyrian in my land and trample him on my mountains; Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden from their shoulder.

Isaiah 33:1

Ah! You destroyer never destroyed, betrayer never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; when you have stopped betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all those corpses, dead!

Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh.

Isaiah 6:13

If there remain a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. Holy offspring is the trunk.

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Nahum 2:11

Emptiness, desolation, waste; melting hearts and trembling knees, Churning in every stomach, every face turning pale!

Zephaniah 2:13

He will stretch out his hand against the north, to destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a waste, dry as the desert.

Zephaniah 3:12

But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, Who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord—

Luke 1:71

salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

Luke 1:74

rescued from the hand of enemies, without fear we might worship him

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my teaching soak in like the rain, and my utterance drench like the dew, Like a downpour upon the grass, like a shower upon the crops.