Micah 5:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us; they shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּ֞ה בֵּֽית־לֶ֣חֶם אֶפְרָ֗תָה צָעִיר֙ לִֽהְיוֹת֙ בְּאַלְפֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה מִמְּךָ֙ לִ֣י יֵצֵ֔א לִֽהְי֥וֹת מוֹשֵׁ֖ל בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּמוֹצָאֹתָ֥יו מִקֶּ֖דֶם מִימֵ֥י עוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾattâ bêt-leḥem ʾeprātâ ṣāʿîr lihyôt in ʾalpê yəhûdâ from-you to-me yēṣēʾ lihyôt môšēl in-yiśrāʾēl and-môṣāʾōtāyw from-qedem from-yəmê ʿôlām

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾattâ*: conjunction + pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - and you
• *bêt-leḥem*: construct state - house of bread
• *ʾeprātâ*: proper noun - Ephrathah
• *ṣāʿîr*: adjective, masculine singular - small/little
• *lihyôt*: preposition + infinitive construct of היה - to be
• *ʾalpê*: masculine plural construct of אלף - thousands of
• *yəhûdâ*: proper noun - Judah
• *yēṣēʾ*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will come forth/go out
• *môšēl*: participle, masculine singular - ruler/one who rules
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *môṣāʾōtāyw*: feminine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his goings forth/origins
• *qedem*: noun, masculine singular - ancient time/east
• *yəmê*: construct state, masculine plural of יום - days of
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - eternity/distant time

Word Meanings

• *ṣāʿîr*: small/little/young/insignificant
• *ʾalpê*: thousands/clans/families
• *môšēl*: ruler/governor/one who has dominion
• *môṣāʾōtāyw*: his origins/his goings forth/his appearances
• *qedem*: ancient times/east/former time
• *ʿôlām*: eternity/ancient time/long duration/antiquity

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come one for me to be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  After that shalt thou be robbed thy selff, o thou robbers doughter: they shal laye sege agaynst vs, and smyte the iudge off Israel with a rodde vpon the cheke.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nowe assemble thy garisons, O daughter of garisons: he hath layed siege against vs: they shall smite the iudge of Israel with a rod vpon the cheeke.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Now shalt thou be robbed thy selfe O thou robbers daughter: they shall laye siege against vs, & smyte the iudge of Israel with a rodde vpon the cheeke.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now you shall gather yourself in troops, Daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  (4:14) But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel’s ruler on the side of his face.

Referenced Verses

• Lam 3:30 : 30 He gives his cheek to the one who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.
• Job 16:10 : 10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.
• Isa 33:22 : 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
• Jer 4:7 : 7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
• Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Isa 8:9 : 9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
• Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
• Deut 28:49 : 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
• Deut 28:51-57 : 51 And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you. 52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
• 1 Sam 8:5-6 : 5 And said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
• 1 Kgs 22:24 : 24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?
• 2 Kgs 24:2 : 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servants the prophets.
• 2 Kgs 25:1-3 : 1 And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it; and they built siege works all around it. 2 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Ezek 21:21-22 : 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound, and to build a fort.
• Ezek 24:2 : 2 Son of man, write the name of the day, even this same day: the king of Babylon has laid siege against Jerusalem this very day.
• Joel 3:9 : 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
• Amos 2:3 : 3 And I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the LORD.
• Hab 1:6 : 6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
• Hab 3:16 : 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice; decay entered my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.
• Matt 5:39 : 39 But I say to you, do not resist an evil person: but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
• Matt 26:67 : 67 Then did they spit in his face, and hit him; and others struck him with the palms of their hands,
• Matt 27:30 : 30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed and hit him on the head.
• Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
• John 18:22 : 22 And when he had said this, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Do you answer the high priest like that?
• John 19:3 : 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they struck him with their hands.
• Acts 23:2 : 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.
• 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear it if someone brings you into bondage, if someone devours you, if someone takes from you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face.