Micah 5:9

Translations

Modern

Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.

Traditional

Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

Literal

Your hand will be lifted against your adversaries, and all your enemies will be cut off.

Latin

Exaltabitur manus tua super hostes tuos, et omnes inimici tui interibunt.

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Hebrew

English

Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.

Notes

Micah 5:8–9

God's people will have a special role among the world's nations (Genesis 12:3; Exodus 19:4–6). They will lead and not follow (Deuteronomy 28:13), and be as strong as a lion (compare Esther 6:13) as God grants them power over the nations.
The Lord will judge their enemies (see Micah 5:15) if they keep rebelling against him. However, the Lord's ultimate wish is to bless the nations, not to curse or destroy them (Genesis 12:3; Jonah 4:11; John 3:16).

Micah 5:7–15

God did not aim to create just another nation (Exodus 19:4–6; Numbers 23:9; Jeremiah 7:23). He wanted his own people to follow his ways and be holy like him (Leviticus 11:45). In that time (Micah 5:10), God will lead a redeemed and purified people, free from violence and the damage of war.

Micah 5:1–15

This section urges Israel to prepare for the fierce attack by Assyria, Israel's enemy (Micah 5:5b–6). This terrifying siege will not destroy Israel, because God will provide a leader (Micah 5:2–5a) to guide the people back from exile. God will preserve and purify the remaining people (Micah 5:7–14), completing their restoration as God's victorious people.

Micah 3:1–5:15

This message accuses the evil leaders who harmed God's people. It contrasts them with a vision of God's kingdom and a righteous king's rule. After facing judgment and exile, a purified Israel would return and receive God's blessings.

Events

Prophecies of Micahc. 754 BC

Related verses

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Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
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Isaiah 14:2–4
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
Isaiah 11:14
They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
Psalm 10:12
Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
1 Corinthians 15:25
For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
Isaiah 1:25
I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
Luke 19:27
And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
Revelation 19:13–21
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.
Isaiah 33:10
“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
Revelation 20:8–9
…and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

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