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Micah 4

The Mountain of the LORD

 ² 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.

 ³ 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.

 ⁴ 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.

 ⁵ 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.

The LORD's Plan

 ⁷ 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.

 ⁸ As for you, O watchtower of the flock,
       O stronghold ^[a] of the Daughter of Zion,
       the former dominion will be restored to you;
       kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem."

 ⁹ 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?

 ¹⁰ 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.

 ¹¹ But now many nations
       are gathered against you.
       They say, "Let her be defiled,
       let our eyes gloat over Zion!"

 ¹² 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.

 ¹³ "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.

Micah 5

A Promised Ruler From Bethlehem

 ² "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
       though you are small among the clans ^[c] of Judah,
       out of you will come for me
       one who will be ruler over Israel,
       whose origins ^[d] are from of old,
       from ancient times. ^[e] "

 ³ Therefore Israel will be abandoned
       until the time when she who is in labor gives birth
       and the rest of his brothers return
       to join the Israelites.

 ⁴ He will stand and shepherd his flock
       in the strength of the LORD,
       in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.
       And they will live securely, for then his greatness
       will reach to the ends of the earth.

 ⁵ And he will be their peace.
      

Deliverance and Destruction

 ⁶ They will rule ^[f] the land of Assyria with the sword,
       the land of Nimrod with drawn sword. ^[g]
       He will deliver us from the Assyrian
       when he invades our land
       and marches into our borders.

 ⁷ The remnant of Jacob will be
       in the midst of many peoples
       like dew from the LORD,
       like showers on the grass,
       which do not wait for man
       or linger for mankind.

 ⁸ The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
       in the midst of many peoples,
       like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
       like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
       which mauls and mangles as it goes,
       and no one can rescue.

 ⁹ Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies,
       and all your foes will be destroyed.

 ¹⁰ "In that day," declares the LORD,
       "I will destroy your horses from among you
       and demolish your chariots.

 ¹¹ I will destroy the cities of your land
       and tear down all your strongholds.

 ¹² I will destroy your witchcraft
       and you will no longer cast spells.

 ¹³ I will destroy your carved images
       and your sacred stones from among you;
       you will no longer bow down
       to the work of your hands.

 ¹⁴ I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles ^[h]
       and demolish your cities.

 ¹⁵ I will take vengeance in anger and wrath
       upon the nations that have not obeyed me."

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Revelation 12

The Woman and the Dragon

 ⁷And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

 ¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
   "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,
      and the authority of his Christ.
   For the accuser of our brothers,
      who accuses them before our God day and night,
      has been hurled down.
 ¹¹They overcame him
      by the blood of the Lamb
      and by the word of their testimony;
   they did not love their lives so much
      as to shrink from death.
 ¹²Therefore rejoice, you heavens
      and you who dwell in them!
   But woe to the earth and the sea,
      because the devil has gone down to you!
   He is filled with fury,
      because he knows that his time is short."

 ¹³When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. ¹⁵Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. ¹⁶But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. ¹⁷Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring—those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.