KJV King James Version
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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Micah 5:1
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
WEB World English Bible
Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
ASV American Standard Version
Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.
Surrounding context — Micah 5
1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time [that] she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עַתָּה֙H6258 · at.tahnowתִּתְגֹּדְדִ֣יH1413 · ga.dadto cutבַת־H1323 · batdaughterגְּד֔וּדH1416 · ge.dudbandמָצ֖וֹרH4692 · ma.tsorsiegeשָׂ֣םH7760 · sumto set: makeעָלֵ֑ינוּH5921 · aluponבַּשֵּׁ֙בֶט֙H7626 · she.vettribe: staffיַכּ֣וּH5221 · na.khahto smiteעַֽל־H5921 · aluponהַלְּחִ֔יH3895 · le.chiLehiאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]שֹׁפֵ֥טH8199 · sha.phatto judgeיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ סH3478 · yis.ra.elIsrael
Cross-references
Lamentations 3:30He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.Matthew 26:67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the palms of their hands,Job 16:10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.Isaiah 33:22For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us.John 19:3And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.John 18:22And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?Deuteronomy 28:49The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;2 Corinthians 11:20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.Acts 23:2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.2 Kings 25:1-3And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.Habakkuk 3:16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.Jeremiah 4:7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.Deuteronomy 28:51-57And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.1 Kings 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?Isaiah 8:9Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.Amos 2:3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.Ezekiel 24:2Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
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