Micah 5:14

5:14 I will uproot your images of Asherah ¹  from your midst,

and destroy your idols. ² 

Micah 5:10

The Lord Will Purify His People

5:10 “In that day,” says the Lord,

“I will destroy ³  your horses from your midst,

and smash your chariots.

Micah 5:13

5:13 I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst;

you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

Micah 6:14

6:14 You will eat, but not be satisfied.

Even if you have the strength ⁴  to overtake some prey, ⁵ 

you will not be able to carry it away; ⁶ 

if you do happen to carry away something,

I will deliver it over to the sword.

Micah 3:11

3:11 Her ⁷  leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, ⁸ 

her priests proclaim rulings for profit,

and her prophets read omens for pay.

Yet they claim to trust ⁹  the Lord and say,

“The Lord is among us. ¹⁰ 

Disaster will not overtake ¹¹  us!”

Micah 5:7-8

5:7 Those survivors from ¹²  Jacob will live ¹³ 

in the midst of many nations. ¹⁴ 

They will be like the dew the Lord sends,

like the rain on the grass,

that does not hope for men to come

or wait around for humans to arrive. ¹⁵ 

5:8 Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations,

in the midst of many peoples.

They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest,

like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,

which attacks when it passes through;

it rips its prey ¹⁶  and there is no one to stop it. ¹⁷ 

[5:14]  ¹ tn Or “Asherah poles.”

[5:14]  ² tn The MT reads “your cities,” but many emend the text to צִרֶיךָ (tsirekha, “your images”) or עֲצַבֶּיךָ (’atsbbekha, “your idols”).

[5:10]  ³ tn Heb “cut off” (also in the following verse).

[6:14]  ⁵ tc The first Hebrew term in the line (וְיֶשְׁחֲךָ, vÿyeshkhakha) is obscure. HALOT 446 s.v. יֶשַׁח understands a noun meaning “filth,” which would yield the translation, “and your filth is inside you.” The translation assumes an emendation to כֹּחַ-וְיֶשׁ (vÿyesh-koakh, “and [if] there is strength inside you”).

[6:14]  ⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term וְתַסֵּג (vÿtasseg) is unclear. The translation assumes it is a Hiphal imperfect from נָסַג/נָשַׂג (nasag/nasag, “reach; overtake”) and that hunting imagery is employed. (Note the reference to hunger in the first line of the verse.) See D. R. Hillers, Micah (Hermeneia), 80.

[6:14]  ⁷ tn The Hiphal of פָּלַט (palat) is used in Isa 5:29 of an animal carrying its prey to a secure place.

[3:11]  ⁷ sn The pronoun Her refers to Jerusalem (note the previous line).

[3:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “judge for a bribe.”

[3:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “they lean upon” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “rely on.”

[3:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Is not the Lord in our midst?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course he is!”

[3:11]  ¹¹ tn Or “come upon” (so many English versions); NCV “happen to us”; CEV “come to us.”

[5:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the remnant of” (also in v. 8).

[5:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will be.”

[5:7]  ¹¹ tn This could mean “(scattered) among the nations” (cf. CEV, NLT) or “surrounded by many nations” (cf. NRSV).

[5:7]  ¹² tn Heb “that does not hope for man, and does not wait for the sons of men.”

[5:8]  ¹¹ tn The words “its prey” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:8]  ¹² tn Heb “and there is no deliverer.”