Micah 5:11

5:11 I will destroy the cities of your land,

and tear down all your fortresses.

Micah 5:14

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

and destroy your idols. ² 

Micah 7:11

7:11 It will be a day for rebuilding your walls;

in that day your boundary will be extended. ³ 

Micah 7:13

7:13 The earth will become desolate ⁴ 

because of what its inhabitants have done. ⁵ 

Micah 7:15

7:15 “As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt,

I will show you ⁶  miraculous deeds.” ⁷ 

[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”).

[7:11]  ³ sn Personified Jerusalem declares her confidence in vv. 8-10; in this verse she is assured that she will indeed be vindicated.

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Or “will be ruined.”

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “on account of its inhabitants, because of the fruit of their deeds.”

[7:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “him.” This probably refers to Israel in a collective sense. Because the switch from direct address to the third person is awkward, some prefer to emend the suffix to a second person form. In any case, it is necessary to employ a second person pronoun in the translation to maintain the connection for the English reader.

[7:15]  ⁷ sn I will show you miraculous deeds. In this verse the Lord responds to the petition of v. 14 with a brief promise of deliverance.