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Micah, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} But in the latter days,
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.
{4:2} Many nations will go and say,
"Come, and let us 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 out of Zion will go forth the law,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem;
{4:3} and he will judge between many peoples,
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.
{4:4} But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig
tree;
and no one will make them afraid:
For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken. {4:5} Indeed all the
nations may walk in the name of their gods;
but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
{4:6} "In that day," says the LORD,
"I will assemble that which is lame,
and I will gather that which is driven away,
and that which I have afflicted;
{4:7} and I will make that which was lame a remnant,
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."
{4:8} You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you it will come,
yes, the former dominion will come,
the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
{4:9} Now why do you cry out aloud?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished,
that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?
{4:10} Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion,
like a woman in travail;
for now you will go forth 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.
{4:11} Now many nations have assembled against you, that say,
"Let her be defiled,
and let our eye gloat over Zion."
{4:12} But they don't know the thoughts of the LORD,
neither do they understand his counsel;
for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
{4:13} Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion;
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs brass;
and you will beat in pieces many peoples:
and I will devote their gain to the LORD,
and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
{5:1} Now you shall gather yourself in troops,
daughter of troops.
He has laid siege against us.
They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
{5:2} But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
being small among the clans of Judah,
out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
{5:3} Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in
labor gives birth.
Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
{5:4} He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the LORD,
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God:
and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the
earth.
{5:5} He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land,
and when he marches through our fortresses,
then we will raise against him seven shepherds,
and eight leaders of men.
{5:6} They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in its gates.
He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he invades our land,
and when he marches within our border.
{5:7} The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples,
like dew from the LORD,
like showers on the grass,
that don't wait for man,
nor wait for the sons of men.
{5:8} The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the animals of the forest,
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep;
who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces,
and there is no one to deliver.
{5:9} Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries,
and let all of your enemies be cut off.
{5:10} "It will happen in that day," says the LORD,
"That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you,
and will destroy your chariots.
{5:11} I will cut off the cities of your land,
and will tear down all your strongholds.
{5:12} I will destroy witchcraft from your hand;
and you shall have no soothsayers.
{5:13} I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of
your midst;
and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
{5:14} I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst;
and I will destroy your cities.
{5:15} I will execute vengeance in anger,
and wrath on the nations that didn't listen."
{6:1} Listen now to what the LORD says:
"Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear what you have to say.
{6:2} Hear, you mountains, the LORD's controversy,
and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for the LORD has a controversy with his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
{6:3} My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you?
Answer me!
{6:4} For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
{6:5} My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised,
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD."
{6:6} How shall I come before the LORD,
and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
{6:7} Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams?
With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
{6:8} He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly,
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
{6:9} The LORD's voice calls to the city,
and wisdom sees your name:
"Listen to the rod,
and he who appointed it.
{6:10} Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the
wicked,
and a [1>]short efah[<1] that is accursed?
{6:11} Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
{6:12} Her rich men are full of violence,
her inhabitants speak lies,
and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
{6:13} Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.
I have made you desolate because of your sins.
{6:14} You shall eat, but not be satisfied.
Your humiliation will be in your midst.
You will store up, but not save;
and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
{6:15} You will sow, but won't reap.
You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil;
and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
{6:16} For the statutes of Omri are kept,
and all the works of the house of Ahab.
You walk in their counsels,
that I may make you a ruin,
and her inhabitants a hissing;
And you will bear the reproach of my people."
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Footnotes:
[1] {6:10} An efah is a measure of volume (about 22 litres or about 2/3
of a bushel), and a short efah is made smaller than a full efah for the
purpose of cheating customers.
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