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title: "Commentary on Jonah, Micah and Nahum"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Jonah, Micah and Nahum, section 71. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jonah-micah-and-nahum/71/"
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# Commentary on Jonah, Micah and Nahum

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Jonah, Micah and Nahum.

## 71. Chapter 5

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[¶0] 1 Assemble now thyself, thou daughter of a troop; A siege has he set against us: (294) With a rod shall they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.

[¶1] 2 And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, Art small to be among the thousands of Judah! From thee shall to me come forth One to be a ruler in Israel; And his goings forth are from the beginning, From the days of ages.

[¶2] 3 He will therefore give them up till the time, When she who travails shall bring forth, And return to the children of Israel Shall the residue of his brethren:

[¶3] 4 And he shall stand and feed in the power of Jehovah, In the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God; And they shall quietly dwell, For he shall now be magnified to the ends of the earth.

[¶4] 5 And he shall be our peace; When the Assyrian shall come into our land, And when he shall tread in our palaces, Then we shall set up against him seven shepherds, And eight princes of men;

[¶5] 6 And they shall lay waste The land of the Assyrian by the sword, And the land of Nimrod by their swords; (311) And he will deliver us from the Assyrian, When he shall come into our land, And when he shall tread in our borders.

[¶6] 7 And the residue of Jacob shall be, Among the nations, in the midst of many people, As a dew from Jehovah, as drops of rain on the grass; Which tarries not for man, nor waits for the sons of men.

[¶7] 8 The residue of Jacob shall also be, Among the nations, in the midst of many people, As a lion among the beasts of the forest, As a young lion among a flock of sheep, Who, when he passes through, tears and carries away, And no one can deliver.

[¶8] 9 Exalted shall be thy hand above thine enemies, And all thine adversaries shall be cut off.

[¶9] 10 And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, That I will cut off thy horses from the midst of thee, And I will destroy thy chariots;

[¶10] 11 And cut off will I the cities of thy land, And will overthrow all thy fortresses;

[¶11] 12 And I will cut off diviners from thine hand, And soothsayers shall not be to thee;

[¶12] 13 And cut off will I thy graven images, And thy stature from the midst of thee, And thou shalt no more bow down Before the work of thy hands;

[¶13] 14 And I will demolish thy groves from the midst of thee, That I man destroy thine enemies;

[¶14] 15 And in anger and fury will I execute on the nations A vengeance, which they have not heard.