Micah 4

The Mountain of the LORD

1 In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple 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 Everyone will sit under their own vine and under their 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, but we will walk in the name of the LORDour God for ever and ever.

The LORD’s Plan

6 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the exiles and those I have brought to grief.
7 I will make the lame my 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, watchtower of the flock, stronghold[a] of Daughter Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.”
9 Why do you now cry aloud— have you no king[b] ? Has your ruler[c] perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?
10 Writhe in agony, Daughter 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, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 “Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hooves 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.

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Cross References 35

  • 1. S Psalms 48:1; Zechariah 8:3
  • 2. S Ezekiel 17:22
  • 3. S Psalms 22:27; Psalms 86:9; S Jeremiah 3:17; S Jeremiah 31:12; S Daniel 2:35
  • 4. S Jeremiah 31:6; S Ezekiel 20:40
  • 5. Zechariah 2:11; Zechariah 14:16
  • 6. S Psalms 119:171
  • 7. Psalms 25:8-9; S Isaiah 54:13
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 18:18
  • 9. S Isaiah 11:4
  • 10. Joel 3:10; Zechariah 9:10
  • 11. S Psalms 46:9
  • 12. Zechariah 8:20-22; Isaiah 2:4
  • 13. S 1 Kings 4:25
  • 14. S Leviticus 26:6; S Ezekiel 39:26
  • 15. S Isaiah 1:20; Zechariah 3:10
  • 16. 2 Kings 17:29; Acts 14:16
  • 17. Joshua 24:14-15; Isaiah 26:8; Zechariah 10:12
  • 18. S Jeremiah 31:8
  • 19. S Psalms 106:47; Psalms 147:2
  • 20. S Ezekiel 34:13,16; S Ezekiel 37:21; Zephaniah 3:19
  • 21. S Joel 2:32; S Micah 2:12
  • 22. S Genesis 12:2
  • 23. S Isaiah 2:2
  • 24. S Daniel 2:44; S Daniel 7:14; S Luke 1:33; Revelation 11:15
  • 25. S Isaiah 1:26
  • 26. Zechariah 9:9
  • 27. Jeremiah 8:19
  • 28. S Genesis 3:16; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 48:41
  • 29. S Deuteronomy 21:10; 2 Kings 20:18; Isaiah 43:14
  • 30. S Isaiah 48:20
  • 31. S Lamentations 2:16; S Obadiah 1:12; Micah 7:8
  • 32. S Genesis 50:20; S Isaiah 55:8; Romans 11:33-34
  • 33. S Isaiah 21:10
  • 34. S Isaiah 45:1; S Daniel 2:44
  • 35. S Isaiah 23:18

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Micah 4 Commentaries

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