Micah 4

Revised Standard Version

Peace and Security through Obedience

4 It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be raised up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
²    and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
    and we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
³He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide for 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;
⁴but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    and none shall make them afraid;
    for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

⁵For all the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
for ever and ever.

Restoration Promised after Exile

⁶In that day, says the Lord,
    I will assemble the lame
and gather those who have been driven away,
    and those whom I have afflicted;
⁷and the lame I will make the remnant;
    and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion
    from this time forth and for evermore.

⁸And you, O tower of the flock,
    hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you shall it come,
    the former dominion shall come,
    the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹Now why do you cry aloud?
    Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished,
    that pangs have seized you like a woman in travail?
¹⁰Writhe and groan,^[a] O daughter of Zion,
    like a woman in travail;
for now you shall go forth from the city
    and dwell in the open country;
    you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued,
    there the Lord will redeem you
    from the hand of your enemies.

¹¹Now many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be profaned,
    and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
¹²But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord,
they do not understand his plan,
    that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³Arise and thresh,
    O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron
    and your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples,
    and shall^[b] devote their gain to the Lord,
    their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

Footnotes

Micah 4:10 Heb uncertain
Micah 4:13 Gk Syr Tg: Heb I will

Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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