Mic 4
1
And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, Lit. ready, Hebraism established on the tops of the mountains,
and it shall be exalted above the hills;
and the peoples shall hasten to it.
2
And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall shew us his way, and we will
walk in his paths: for out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem.
3
And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations Gr. even to a distance afar off; and they shall beat
their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into
sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
learn to war any more.
4
And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig-tree; and there
shall be none to alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these words.
5
For all other nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the
name of the Lord our God Gr. for the age and beyond for ever and ever.
6
In that day, says the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her
that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.
7
And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty
nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for
ever.
8
And you, Or, gloomy, or, foul dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on you the dominion shall come and enter
in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9
And now, why have you known calamities? was there not a king to you? or has your counsel
perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon you?
10
Be in pain, and strengthen yourself, and sc. the time, but Alex.—’draw near’ draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in
travail: for now you shall go forth
out of the city, and shall lodge in the plain, and shall reach even to Babylon: thence
shall the Lord your God deliver you, and thence shall he redeem you out of the hand
of your enemies.
11
And now have many nations gathered against you, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes
shall look upon Sion.
12
But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for
he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.
13
Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make your horns iron, and I
will make your hoofs brass: and you shall utterly destroy many nations, and shall
consecrate Or, the multitude of them their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.