Micah 4–5

4^aBut in the last days it shall come to pass,

That the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains,

And it shall be exalted above the hills;

And people shall flow unto it.

²And many nations shall come, 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 the law shall go forth of Zion,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³And ^bhe shall judge among many people,

And rebuke ^cstrong nations afar off;

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into ^||pruninghooks:

Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war any more.

^4dBut they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree;

^eAnd none shall make them afraid:

^fFor the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.

⁵For ^gall people will walk every one in the name of his god,

And ^hwe will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

⁶ⁱIn that day, saith the Lord, ^kwill I assemble ^lmher that halteth,

And ^klI will gather ⁿher that is driven out,

And her that I have afflicted;

⁷And I will make ^lmher that halted ^oa remnant,

And her that was cast far off ^ca strong nation:

And ^prthe Lord shall reign over them ^qin mount Zion

^rFrom henceforth, even for ever.

⁸And thou, O tower of ^||sthe flock,

^tThe strong hold of the daughter of Zion,

Unto thee shall it come, even ^uthe first dominion;

The kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹Now why dost thou cry out ^valoud?

^wIs there no king in thee?

^xIs thy counseller perished?

For ^ypangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

^10zBe in pain, and ^alabour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, ^ylike a woman in travail:

For now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field,

And ^bthou shalt go even to Babylon; ^cthere shalt thou be delivered;

^cThere the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

¹¹Now also ^ccmany nations are gathered against thee,

That say, ^dLet her be defiled, and ^elet our eye look upon Zion.

¹²But ^fthey know not the thoughts of the Lord,

Neither understand they his counsel:

For ^ghe shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

¹³Arise and ^hithresh, O daughter of Zion:

For I will make ^jthine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass:

And thou shalt ^ikbeat in pieces many people:

And I will ^lconsecrate ^mtheir gain unto the Lord,

And ⁿtheir substance unto ^othe Lord of the whole earth.

5Now ^agather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops:

He hath laid ^bsiege against us:

^cThey shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod ^cupon the cheek.

^2dBut thou, ^eBeth-lehem Ephratah,

Though thou be little among ^fthe thousands of ^gJudah,

Yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ^hruler in Israel;

Whose ⁱgoings forth have been ^kfrom of old, ^kfrom ^†everlasting.

³Therefore will he give them up,

Until the time that ^lshe which travaileth hath brought forth:

Then ^mthe remnant of his brethren ⁿshall return unto the children of Israel.

⁴And ^khe shall stand and ^||ofeed in the strength of the Lord,

In the majesty of the name of the Lord his God;

And they shall abide:

For now ^pqshall he be great unto ^rthe ends of the earth.

⁵And ^psthis man shall be the peace,

^tWhen the Assyrian shall come into our land:

And when he shall tread in our palaces,

Then shall ^uwe raise against him ^vseven ^wxshepherds,

And ^veight ^†wprincipal men.

⁶And they shall ^†waste the land of Assyria with the sword,

And the land of ^zNimrod ^||in the entrances thereof:

Thus ^ashall he deliver us from the Assyrian,

^bWhen he cometh into our land,

^bAnd when he treadeth within our borders.

⁷And ^cthe remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people

^deAs a dew from the Lord,

^dfAs the showers upon the grass,

That tarrieth not for man,

Nor waiteth for the sons of men.

⁸And ^cthe remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people

^gAs a lion among the beasts of the forest,

^gAs a young lion among the flocks of ^||sheep:

Who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces,

^hAnd none can deliver.

⁹ⁱThine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,

And all thine enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰And it shall come to pass ^kin that day, saith the Lord,

^lThat I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee,

And I will destroy ^lthy chariots:

¹¹And ^mI will cut off the cities of thy land,

And ^mthrow down all thy strong holds:

¹²And I will cut off ⁿwitchcrafts out of thine hand;

And thou shalt have no more ^osoothsayers:

¹³Thy graven images also ^pwill I cut off,

And thy ^||qstanding images out of the midst of thee;

And ^rthou shalt no more ^sworship the work of thine hands.

¹⁴And I will pluck up thy ^tgroves out of the midst of thee:

^mSo will I destroy thy ^||ucities.

¹⁵And ^vI will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen,

Such as they have not heard.