Micah 4

Berean Standard Bible

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In the last days, the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established above the hills, drawing many nations to stream toward Zion to learn His ways and receive His law. The LORD will judge between peoples, and nations will beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, ending all military training and warfare so everyone may dwell securely under their own vine and fig tree. While other nations walk in the names of their gods, the people affirm they will walk in the name of the LORD forever. The LORD declares that in that day He will gather the lame and the outcast, making them a strong nation and ruling over them in Mount Zion. Addressing the Daughter of Zion, the text foresees a time of great anguish like a woman in labor, exile to Babylon where the LORD will rescue and redeem her, and a subsequent gathering of hostile nations against her. Unaware of the LORD's plan to gather these enemies like sheaves to a threshing floor, the Daughter of Zion is commanded to rise and thresh them with horns of iron and hooves of bronze, devoting their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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¹In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. ²And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. ³Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war. ⁴And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken. ⁵Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. ⁶“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted. ⁷And I will make the lame into a remnant, the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever. ⁸And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion— the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.” ⁹Why 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? ¹⁰Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies! ¹¹But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.” ¹²But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor. ¹³Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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