Micah 4:1-6

1 In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

2 and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the Lord, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the Lord's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."

3 He will settle disputes among the nations, ¹ among the great powers near and far. They will hammer their swords into plows and their spears into pruning knives. Nations will never again go to war, never prepare for battle again.

4 Everyone will live in peace ² among their own vineyards and fig trees, and no one will make them afraid. The Lord Almighty has promised this.

5 Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the Lord our God forever and ever.

6 "The time is coming," says the Lord, "when I will gather together the people I punished, those who have suffered in exile.

Micah 4:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 4

This chapter contains some gracious promises concerning the glory and happiness of the church of Christ in the last days; as of its stability, exaltation, and increase, and of the spread of the Gospel from it, Mic 4:1,2; and of the peace and security of it, and constant profession and exercise of religion in it, Mic 4:3-5; and of the deliverance of it from affliction and distress, and the ample and everlasting kingdom of Christ in it, Mic 4:6-8; and then follow some prophecies more particularly respecting the Jews; as that, though they should be in distress, and be carried captive into Babylon, they should be delivered from thence, Mic 4:9,10; and, though many people should be gathered against them, yet should not be able to prevail over them, but their attempts would issue in their own destruction, Mic 4:11-13.

Cross References

• 1. 4.3Isaiah 2.4;Joel 3.10.
• 2. 4.4Zechariah 3.10.

Footnotes

• [a]. hill of the lord: [Mount Zion (see Zion in Word List).]