Micah 4:1-13
4 In the final part of the days,*The mountain of the house of Jehovah+Will become firmly established above the top of the mountains,And it will be raised up above the hills,And to it peoples will stream.+
2 And many nations will go and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of JehovahAnd to the house of the God of Jacob.+
He will instruct us about his ways,And we will walk in his paths.”
For law* will go out of Zion,And the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem.
3 He will render judgment among many peoples+And set matters straight* respecting mighty nations far away.
They will beat their swords into plowsharesAnd their spears into pruning shears.+
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,Nor will they learn war anymore.+
4 They will sit,* each one under his vine and under his fig tree,+And no one will make them afraid,+For the mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken.
5 For all the peoples will walk, each in the name of its god,But we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God+ forever and ever.
6 “In that day,” declares Jehovah,“I will gather the one* who was limping,And collect together the dispersed one,+Along with those I treated harshly.
7 I will make the one* who was limping a remnant,+And the one far removed a mighty nation;+And Jehovah will rule as king over them in Mount Zion,From now on and forever.
8 As for you, O tower of the flock,The mound of the daughter of Zion,+To you it will come, yes, the first* dominion will come,+The kingdom belonging to the daughter of Jerusalem.+
9 Now why are you shouting loudly?
Have you no king,Or has your adviser perished,So that pain has seized you like a woman giving birth?+
10 Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion,Like a woman giving birth,For now you will go from the city and reside in the field.
You will go as far as to Babylon,+And there you will be rescued;+There Jehovah will buy you back from the hand of your enemies.+
11 Now many nations will be gathered against you;They will say, ‘Let her be defiled,And let our eyes see this happen to Zion.’
12 But they do not know the thoughts of Jehovah,They do not understand his purpose;*For he will gather them like a row of newly cut grain to the threshing floor.
13 Get up and thresh, O daughter of Zion;+For I will change your horns into iron,And I will change your hooves into copper,And you will pulverize many peoples.+
You will devote their dishonest profit to Jehovah,And their resources to the true Lord of the whole earth.”+
Footnotes
^ Or “In the last days.”
^ Or “instruction.”
^ Or “correct matters.”
^ Or “dwell.”
^ Lit., “her.”
^ Lit., “her.”
^ Or “former.”
^ Or “counsel.”
