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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 5
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    "n": 5,
    "bookSlug": "micah",
    "bookCode": "MIC",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "MIC-5:1",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.1",
        "text": "Now you shall gather yourself in troops,\ndaughter of troops.\nHe has laid siege against us.\nThey will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "MIC-5:2",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.2",
        "text": "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,\nbeing small among the clans of Judah,\nout of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel;\nwhose goings out are from of old, from ancient times."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "MIC-5:3",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.3",
        "text": "Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth.\nThen the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "MIC-5:4",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.4",
        "text": "He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh,\nin the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God:\nand they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "MIC-5:5",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.5",
        "text": "He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land,\nand when he marches through our fortresses,\nthen we will raise against him seven shepherds,\nand eight leaders of men."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "MIC-5:6",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.6",
        "text": "They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,\nand the land of Nimrod in its gates.\nHe will deliver us from the Assyrian,\nwhen he invades our land,\nand when he marches within our border."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "MIC-5:7",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.7",
        "text": "The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples,\nlike dew from Yahweh,\nlike showers on the grass,\nthat don’t wait for man,\nnor wait for the sons of men."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "MIC-5:8",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.8",
        "text": "The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,\namong many peoples,\nlike a lion among the animals of the forest,\nlike a young lion among the flocks of sheep;\nwho, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces,\nand there is no one to deliver."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "MIC-5:9",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.9",
        "text": "Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries,\nand let all of your enemies be cut off."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "MIC-5:10",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.10",
        "text": "“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh,\n“that I will cut off your horses out from among you,\nand will destroy your chariots."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "MIC-5:11",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.11",
        "text": "I will cut off the cities of your land,\nand will tear down all your strongholds."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "MIC-5:12",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.12",
        "text": "I will destroy witchcraft from your hand;\nand you shall have no soothsayers."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "MIC-5:13",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.13",
        "text": "I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from among you;\nand you shall no more worship the work of your hands."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "MIC-5:14",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.14",
        "text": "I will uproot your Asherah poles out from among you;\nand I will destroy your cities."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "MIC-5:15",
        "verseRef": "MIC.5.15",
        "text": "I will execute vengeance in anger,\nand wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”"
      }
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