Micah 5:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And have cut off sorcerers out of thy hand, And observers of clouds thou hast none.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִכְרַתִּ֧י פְסִילֶ֛יךָ וּמַצֵּבוֹתֶ֖יךָ מִקִּרְבֶּ֑ךָ וְלֹֽא־תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֥ה ע֖וֹד לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

wə-hikrattî pəsîleykā and-maṣṣēbôteykā from-qirbekā and-not-tištaḥăweh again to-maʿăśēh yādeykā

Grammar Details

• *wə-hikrattî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will cut off
• *pəsîleykā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your carved images
• *maṣṣēbôteykā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your pillars
• *qirbekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your midst
• *tištaḥăweh*: hishtaphel imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will bow down
• *maʿăśēh*: masculine singular construct - work of
• *yādeykā*: feminine dual noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your hands

Word Meanings

• *pəsîleykā*: your carved images/your idols/your graven images
• *maṣṣēbôteykā*: your pillars/your sacred stones/your standing stones
• *tištaḥăweh*: you will bow down/you will worship/you will prostrate yourself

Referenced Verses

• Deut 18:10-12 : 10 there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, 11 and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead. 12 `For the abomination of Jehovah `is' every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.
• Isa 2:6-8 : 6 For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And `are' sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands. 7 And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots, 8 And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made,
• Isa 2:18 : 18 And the idols -- they completely pass away.
• Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,
• Isa 8:19-20 : 19 And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? -- For the living unto the dead! 20 To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
• Isa 27:9 : 9 Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this `is' all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.
• Zech 13:2-4 : 2 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I cut off the names of the idols from the land, And they are not remembered any more, And also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I cause to pass away from the land. 3 And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, `Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,' And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying. 4 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Ashamed are the prophets, each of his vision, in his prophesying, And they put not on a hairy robe to deceive.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast -- the two -- to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;
• Rev 22:15 : 15 and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.