Micah 4

1 But in the latter days, ‡ Isa 2:1-4Jer 3:17Act 2:17Psa 22:27Zec 14:16-21Psa 86:9Zec 8:3Ezk 43:12 +40

it will happen that the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains,

and it will be exalted above the hills;

and peoples will stream to it.

2 Many nations will go and say, ‡ Isa 2:3Jer 31:6Act 1:8Isa 54:13Psa 25:12Psa 25:8-9Zec 14:8-9Isa 42:1-4 +21

“Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD,

and to the house of the God of Jacob;

and he will teach us of his ways,

and we will walk in his paths.”

For the law will go out of Zion,

and the LORD’s word from Jerusalem;

3 and he will judge between many peoples, ‡ Isa 2:4Jol 3:9-16Mat 25:31-32Hos 2:18Act 17:31Isa 65:25Jhn 5:22-23Jhn 5:27-29 +28

and will decide concerning strong nations afar off.

They will beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

neither will they learn war any more.

4 But every man will sit under his vine and under his fig tree. ‡ Zec 3:101Ki 4:25Ezk 39:26Isa 1:20Isa 54:14Isa 58:14Ezk 34:28Isa 40:5 +5

No one will make them afraid,

for the mouth of the LORD of Armies has spoken. 5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, ‡ Zec 10:12Col 3:17Jos 24:15Isa 2:5Psa 145:1-2Psa 48:142Ki 17:292Ki 17:34 +6

but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

6 “In that day,” says the LORD, ‡ Zep 3:19Ezk 34:12-17Isa 56:8Isa 35:3-6Jhn 10:16Mic 2:12Psa 147:2Ezk 36:24 +8

“I will assemble that which is lame,

and I will gather that which is driven away,

and that which I have afflicted;

7 and I will make that which was lame a remnant, ‡ Dan 7:14Isa 24:23Luk 1:33Mic 2:12Mic 5:7-8Mic 7:18Isa 9:6-7Mic 5:3 +15

and that which was cast far off a strong nation:

and the LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”

8 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, ‡ Isa 1:26Rev 22:5Zec 9:10Dan 2:44Gen 35:21Oba 1:21Zec 9:122Sa 5:7 +8

to you it will come.

Yes, the former dominion will come,

the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

9 Now why do you cry out aloud? ‡ Jer 8:19Isa 3:1-7Lam 4:20Hos 10:3Hos 13:10-11Hos 3:4Isa 13:8Isa 21:3 +5

Is there no king in you?

Has your counselor perished,

that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

10 Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, ‡ Isa 48:202Ki 20:18Hos 13:13Hos 2:14Isa 43:14Isa 45:13Isa 52:9-122Ch 36:20 +11

like a woman in travail;

for now you will go out of the city,

and will dwell in the field,

and will come even to Babylon.

There you will be rescued.

There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, ‡ Oba 1:12Isa 5:25-30Mic 7:10Isa 8:7-8Jer 52:4Jol 3:2-15Lam 2:15-16

“Let her be defiled,

and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

12 But they don’t know the thoughts of the LORD, ‡ Isa 55:8Jer 29:11Rom 11:33-34Jol 3:12-13Luk 3:17Zec 14:1-3Rev 14:14-20Isa 21:10

neither do they understand his counsel;

for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, ‡ Isa 41:15-16Dan 2:44Isa 18:7Isa 23:181Co 16:2Rev 2:26-27Rev 21:24-26Rom 15:25-28 +12

for I will make your horn iron,

and I will make your hoofs bronze.

You will beat in pieces many peoples.

I will devote their gain to the LORD,

and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.