1Now 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.[ † ]1 Kings 22:24Job 16:10Lamentations 3:30Matthew 27:30Mark 15:19
2But thou, Beth-lehem 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.[ † ]Isaiah 11:1Matthew 2:6Luke 2:4-11John 7:42Genesis 35:19Genesis 48:7Ruth 4:111 Samuel 23:23Exodus 18:25Genesis 49:10Isaiah 9:6Psalms 90:2John 1:1 3Therefore 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.[ † ]Hosea 11:8Micah 4:10Micah 4:7Micah 7:18 4And 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.[ † ]Isaiah 40:11Isaiah 49:9Ezekiel 34:13-15, 23, 24Micah 7:14Psalms 72:8Isaiah 52:13Zechariah 9:10Luke 1:32
5And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.[ † ]Isaiah 9:6Luke 2:14Ephesians 2:14Colossians 1:20 6And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.[ † ]Genesis 10:8-11Isaiah 14:25Luke 1:71
7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord , as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.[ † ]Micah 5:3Genesis 27:28Deuteronomy 32:2Psalms 72:6Hosea 14:5 8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.[ † ]Genesis 49:9Numbers 24:9 9Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord , that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:[ † ]Zechariah 9:10Deuteronomy 17:16Isaiah 2:7Isaiah 22:18Hosea 14:3 11and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: 12and I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:[ † ]Deuteronomy 18:10-12Isaiah 2:6 13thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.[ † ]Zechariah 13:2Isaiah 2:8 14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. 15And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.[ † ]2 Thessalonians 1:8