The Mountain of the House of Yahweh
(Micah 4:1–5)

1The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2And it shall come to pass at the end of the days,

the mountain of the house of YHWH will be established

at the top of the mountains,

and it will be lifted up above the hills,

and all the nations will flow to it.

3And many people will come and say,

“Come and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH,

to the house of the God of Jacob;

and He will teach us His ways,

and we will walk in His paths.”

For the law will go forth from Zion,

and the Word of YHWH from Jerusalem.

4And He will judge between the nations

and will give rebuke to many peoples,

and they will beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will no longer lift up a sword against nation,

and will not they learn any more war.

The Day of Reckoning

5O House of Jacob, come,

and let us walk in the light of YHWH.

6For You have left Your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are filled

from the east,

and they practice divination like the Philistines,

and with the sons of foreigners they strike hands.

7And its land is full of silver and gold,

and there is no end to the treasure.

And its land is full of horses,

and there is no end to the chariots.

8And its land is full of idols;

to the work of the hands they bow down—

to that which its fingers have made.

9And mankind is bent down,

each man abases himself—

do not forgive them!

10Enter into the rock

and hide yourself in the dust,

from the dread of YHWH

and from the glory of His majesty.

11The haughtiness of the eyes of man will be brought low,

and the loftiness of men will be bent down.

And YHWH alone will be exalted in that day.

12For the day of YHWH of hosts

is upon everything proud and lofty,

and upon everything lifted up—

and it will be brought low—

13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, those being high and lifted up,

and upon all the Oaks of Bashan,

14and upon all on the mountains that are high,

and upon all on the hills that are lifted up,

15and upon every high tower,

and upon every fortified wall,

16and upon all the ships of Tarshish,†

and upon all the desirable vessels.

17And the haughtiness of man will be bent down,

and the loftiness of men will be brought low,

and YHWH alone will be exalted in that day—

18and the idols utterly will pass away.

19And they will go into the caves of rocks,

and into the holes of the earth,

from the face of the dread of YHWH

and the glory of His majesty,

in His rising to shake the earth.

20In that day man will throw away

the idols of his silver, and idols of his gold,

which they made, each for himself,

to bow down to diggers of holes and to the bats,

21to go into the crevices of the rocks,

and into the clefts of the cliffs,

before the face of the dread of YHWH and the glory of His majesty,

in His rising to shake the earth.

Cease yourselves from man,

whose breath is in his nostril,

for of what account is he?