Micah
4
- In the last days the mountain of the LORD'S
temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised
above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.
- 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." The law
will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- He will judge between many peoples and will
settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take
up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
- Every man will sit under his own vine and
under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the LORD Almighty
has spoken.
- All the nations may walk in the name of
their gods; we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
- "In that day," declares the LORD,
"I will gather the lame; I will assemble the exiles and those I have
brought to grief.
- I will make the lame a remnant, those driven
away a strong nation. The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that
day and forever.
- As for you, O watchtower of the flock, O
stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion will be restored to
you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem."
- Why do you now cry aloud -- have you no
king? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman
in labor ?
- Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like
a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem
you out of the hand of your enemies.
- But now many nations are gathered against
you. They say, "Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion !"
- But they do not know the thoughts of the
LORD; they do not understand his plan, he who gathers them like sheaves to
the threshing floor.
- "Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion,
for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hoofs of bronze and you
will break to pieces many nations." You will devote their ill-gotten
gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
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