Miqueas 4:12

12 Pero estas naciones no conocen los pensamientos del Señor
ni entienden su plan.
No saben
que las está reuniendo
para golpearlas y pisotearlas
como a gavillas de grano en el campo de trillar.

Miqueas 4:12 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 4:12

But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand
they his counsel
Which are very different from theirs: the thoughts and designs of the enemies of Zion, in the times of the Maccabees, were, to destroy utterly the people of God, and root them out of the earth, and abolish their religion and worship; but the intentions of God were to defeat them, and bring them to ruin: the views of the kings of the earth, being stirred up by unclean spirits to the battle of Almighty God, will be to extirpate the interest and kingdom of Christ; but the end of the Lord, in suffering them to be gathered together, will be utterly and totally to destroy them; and the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand, and the thoughts of his heart, to all generations. Men know their own designs, but they do not know the designs of the Lord; they intend the ruin of others, but God intends to bring about theirs; and his intentions are never frustrated, but theirs are; for he shall gather them as sheaves into the floor;
as, when the harvest is ripe, it is cut down, and bound up in sheaves, and brought home, and these are laid in order upon the floor to be threshed; so, when the nations of the earth are fully ripe for ruin, God will put, or order to be put; in the sickle, and cut them down, and bind them in bundles, and lay them on his threshingfloor of wrath and vengeance, and utterly destroy them contrary to their views and expectations.

Miqueas 4:12 In-Context

10 Retuérzanse y giman como una mujer con dolores de parto,
ustedes, habitantes de Jerusalén,
porque ahora tendrán que salir de esta ciudad
para vivir en campos abiertos.
Pronto serán enviados al destierro
a la lejana Babilonia.
Pero allí el Señor
los rescatará;
él los redimirá de las garras de sus enemigos.

11 Ahora muchas naciones se han reunido contra ustedes.
«Que sean profanados —dicen ellos—.
Seamos testigos de la destrucción de Jerusalén».

12 Pero estas naciones no conocen los pensamientos del Señor
ni entienden su plan.
No saben
que las está reuniendo
para golpearlas y pisotearlas
como a gavillas de grano en el campo de trillar.

13 «¡Levántate y aplasta a las naciones, oh Jerusalén!
—dice el Señor
—.
Pues te daré cuernos de hierro y pezuñas de bronce,
para que pisotees a muchas naciones hasta reducirlas a polvo.
Presentarás al Señor
las riquezas mal habidas de esas naciones,
sus tesoros al Señor
de toda la tierra».