Micah 3:9-4:5

The Voice

⁹ Now listen closely you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel
    who hate what is right and just and make the straight path into a crooked road,
¹⁰ Who build Zion with innocent blood
    and Jerusalem with wrongdoing.
¹¹ Her leaders exchange justice for a bribe; her priests teach, but for a price;
    her prophets divine for money,
Yet they have the gall to say as they lean on the Eternal,
    “He is on our side! Nothing bad will happen to us!”
¹² All of this is why Zion will be plowed flat as a field,
    Jerusalem will become a tumble of rubble,
And the temple mountain will become an ordinary high place in the forest.

4 But in the last hopeful days that are coming,
    the temple mountain of the Eternal One will tower over all other mountains.
It will be raised above the hills, and people will flow up it like rivers.
² The nations of the world will say, “Come, let’s go up, everyone,
    to the mountain of the Eternal One, to the house of the God of Jacob,
So He can teach us His way and we can follow in His footsteps.”
    For God’s law will march out of Zion—the Eternal’s word from Jerusalem.
³ He will judge between many people and arbitrate disputes between strong faraway nations;
    they will hammer their swords into plow blades, their spears into pruning hooks.
One nation will not attack another,
    and they will give up war training and maneuvers.
⁴ But they will each sit under their own vines and fig trees,
    and no one will make them afraid again
Because the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, has ordered it so.
⁵ All people move ahead in the name of their own gods, whatever they are,
    but we move ahead in the name of the Eternal,
Our True God, forever and ever.