Micah 1:9

1:9 For Samaria’s ¹  disease ²  is incurable.

It has infected ³  Judah;

it has spread to ⁴  the leadership ⁵  of my people

and has even contaminated Jerusalem! ⁶ 

Micah 5:5

5:5 He will give us peace. ⁷ 

Should the Assyrians try to invade our land

and attempt to set foot in our fortresses, ⁸ 

we will send ⁹  against them seven ¹⁰  shepherd-rulers, ¹¹ 

make that eight commanders. ¹² 

Micah 7:8

Jerusalem Will Be Vindicated

7:8 My enemies, ¹³  do not gloat ¹⁴  over me!

Though I have fallen, I will get up.

Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. ¹⁵ 

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “her”; the referent (Samaria) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ² tc The MT reads the plural “wounds”; the singular is read by the LXX, Syriac, and Vg.

[1:9]  ³ tn Heb “come to.”

[1:9]  ⁴ tn Or “reached.”

[1:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the gate.” Kings and civic leaders typically conducted important business at the city gate (see 1 Kgs 22:10 for an example), and the term is understood here to refer by metonymy to the leadership who would be present at the gate.

[1:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “to Jerusalem.” The expression “it has contaminated” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to fill out the parallelism with the preceding line.

[5:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and this one will be peace”; ASV “and this man shall be our peace” (cf. Eph 2:14).

[5:5]  ⁸ tc Some prefer to read “in our land,” emending the text to בְּאַדְמָתֵנוּ (bÿ’admatenu).

[5:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “raise up.”

[5:5]  ¹⁰ sn The numbers seven and eight here symbolize completeness and emphasize that Israel will have more than enough military leadership and strength to withstand the Assyrian advance.

[5:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “shepherds.”

[5:5]  ¹² tn Heb “and eight leaders of men.”

[7:8]  ¹³ tn The singular form is understood as collective.

[7:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “rejoice” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NCV “don’t laugh at me.”

[7:8]  ¹⁵ sn Darkness represents judgment; light (also in v. 9) symbolizes deliverance. The Lord is the source of the latter.