耶路撒冷的将来

在末后的日子,
耶和华殿所在的山必超乎群山,
高过众岭,
万民都要归向它。
多国的民都要前来,说:
“来吧,让我们登耶和华的山,
去雅各之上帝的殿。
祂必指示我们当行的路,
我们也要遵行祂的道。”
因为训诲必出于锡安,
耶和华的话语必来自耶路撒冷。
祂要在各民族中施行审判,
为远方的强国断定是非。
他们要把刀剑铸成犁头,
把矛枪打成镰刀。
国与国之间不再动刀枪,
也不再学习战争。
人人都安然坐在自己的葡萄树和无花果树下,
不再担惊受怕。
这是万军之耶和华亲口说的。
万民都遵从自己的神明,
但我们要永远遵从我们的上帝耶和华。

耶和华说:
“到那日,我要聚集瘸腿的,
招聚被掳的和被我惩罚的。
我要使瘸腿的成为余民,
让被掳的成为强国。
耶和华要在锡安山做王治理他们,
从那时直到永远。

“你这羊群的瞭望塔,
锡安城[a]的坚垒啊!
从前的国权——
耶路撒冷城的王位必重新归你。”

现在你为何大声哭喊?
是因为你没有王吗?
难道你的谋士都死了吗,
以致你像分娩的妇人一样痛苦不堪?
10 锡安的百姓啊,
你们要像分娩的妇人一样辗转呻吟,
因为你们现在要离开这城,
住在荒野,被掳到巴比伦。
在那里,你们将得到解救;
在那里,耶和华必从敌人手中救赎你们。

11 现在许多国家一起来攻击你们,说:
“愿锡安遭蹂躏,
我们要看着锡安被毁灭。”
12 他们却不知道耶和华的心意,
也不明白祂的计划。
祂聚集他们是要惩罚他们,
像把禾捆堆积在麦场一样。
13 耶和华说:
“锡安城啊,
起来打谷吧!
我要给你铁角,
我要给你铜蹄。
你要打碎列国,
将他们的不义之财献给耶和华,
把他们的财富献给普天下的主。”

Footnotes

  1. 4:8 ”希伯来文是“女子”,可能是对锡安的昵称,下同4:13

But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Jehovah’s house shall be established [a]on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it. And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth [b]the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem; and he will judge [c]between [d]many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it. For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.

In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Jehovah will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. And thou, O tower of [e]the flock, [f]the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail? 10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 11 And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye [g]see our desire upon Zion. 12 But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor. 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Footnotes

  1. Micah 4:1 Or, at the head
  2. Micah 4:2 Or, instruction
  3. Micah 4:3 Or, among
  4. Micah 4:3 Or, great
  5. Micah 4:8 Or, Eder. See Gen. 35:21.
  6. Micah 4:8 Hebrew Ophel.
  7. Micah 4:11 Or, gaze upon