Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Micah 5:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds. American Standard Version (1901) and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds. Common English Bible I will cut down the cities of your land; I will tear down your defenses! Catholic Public Domain Version And I will destroy the cities of your land, and I will pull down all your fortifications, and I will take away evil-doing from your hand, and there will be no divinations among you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will destroy the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strong holds, and I will take away sorceries out of thy hand, and there shall be no divinations in thee. |
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Ya`akov, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Pelishtim, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
Therefore, by this the iniquity of Ya`akov will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Then I said, *Lord, how long?* He answered, *Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Ya`akov, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Yehudah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes of it.
and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beit-Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, *This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbavel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD of Armies.