Micah 5:3

God will give His people up until 'she who is in labor gives birth,' then the remnant will return. It links the Messiah's coming to the time of restoration.

Cross-references · 22

• Rev 12:1–2And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
• Mic 4:7And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
• Rom 9:27–28Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
• Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
• Mic 4:9–10Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?
• Isa 10:20–21On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
• Hos 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
• Hos 2:9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
• Heb 1:11–12They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
• Rom 11:4–6And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
• Mic 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
• Hos 2:14“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
• Isa 11:11On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Rom 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Jer 31:7–9For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
• 1 Kgs 14:16So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
• Mic 6:14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
• Jer 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
• Isa 66:7–8“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
• Matt 25:40And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
• 2 Chr 30:7Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

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