Micah 4:3-13 ▼

3 And He will judge between many peoples, and He will decide even for strong nations, those far off. And they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up a sword against nation, and they will not learn war anymore;

4 and each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and there will not be one making them afraid, for the mouth of YHWH of Hosts has spoken.

5 For all the peoples walk, each man in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of YHWH our God forever and ever.

6 “On that day,” a declaration of YHWH, “I will gather the lame, and I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.

7 And I will set the lame as a remnant, and those cast out as a strong nation. And YHWH will reign over them on Mount Zion from now and even to forever.

8 And you, Migdal-eder, O citadel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come—the former dominion will come—the kingdom to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”

9 Now why do you shout with shouting? Is there no king among you? Or has your counselor perished, that has gripped you anguish like a woman in labor?

10 Writhe, and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will go forth from the city, and you will dwell in the field, and you will go to Babylon. There you will be delivered, there YHWH will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

11 And now many nations are gathered against you, those saying, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

12 And they do not know the thoughts of YHWH, and they do not understand His counsel, how He gathers them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion. For your horn I will set as iron, and your hooves I will set as bronze; and you will crush many peoples, and you will devote to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.