Micah 3:5-4:9

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⁵Thus says the Lord concerning ^(A)the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
^(B)who cry “Peace”
    when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
    who puts nothing into their mouths.
⁶Therefore ^(C)it shall be night to you, without vision,
    and darkness to you, without divination.
^(D)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
    and the day shall be black over them;
⁷^(E)the seers shall be disgraced,
    and the diviners put to shame;
^(F)they shall all cover their lips,
    for ^(G)there is no answer from God.
⁸But as for me, ^(H)I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob ^(I)his transgression
    and to Israel his sin.

⁹^(J)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
    and rulers of the house of Israel,
^(K)who detest justice
    and make crooked all that is straight,
¹⁰^(L)who build Zion with blood
    and Jerusalem with iniquity.
¹¹^(M)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    ^(N)its priests teach for a price;
    ^(O)its prophets practice divination for money;
^(P)yet they lean on the Lord and ^(Q)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    ^(R)No disaster shall come upon us.”
¹²Therefore because of you
    ^(S)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem ^(T)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and ^(U)the mountain of the house ^(V)a wooded height.

The Mountain of the Lord

4 It shall come to pass ^(W)in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and it shall be lifted 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 that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,^[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
³He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall ^(X)beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore;
⁴^(Y)but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    ^(Z)and no one shall make them afraid,
    ^(AA)for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
⁵For ^(AB)all the peoples walk
    each in the name of its god,
but ^(AC)we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
    forever and ever.

The Lord Shall Rescue Zion

⁶^(AD)In that day, declares the Lord,
    ^(AE)I will assemble the ^(AF)lame
and gather those who have been driven away
    and those whom I have afflicted;
⁷and the lame I will make ^(AG)the remnant,
    and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and ^(AH)the Lord will reign over them ^(AI)in Mount Zion
    from this time forth and forevermore.

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

⁹Now why do you cry aloud?
^(AJ)Is there no king in you?
^(AK)Has your counselor perished,
that ^(AL)pain seized you like a woman in labor?