Micah

¹ Now it will be that in the last days The mountain of the house of Yahweh Will be established as the head of the mountains, And will be lifted up above the hills, And the peoples will stream to it.

² “Come and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh And to the house of the God of Jacob, That He may instruct us from His ways And that we may walk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth the law, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

³ And will render decisions for mighty, distant nations. And they will hammer their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

⁴ And under his fig tree, With no one to make them tremble, For the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.

⁵ Each in the name of his god, As for us, we will walk In the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

⁶ “I will assemble the lame And gather the banished, Even those upon whom I have brought calamity.

⁷ And the outcasts a mighty nation, And Yahweh will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on and forever.

⁸ Hill of the daughter of Zion, To you it will come— Even the former dominion will come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹ Is there no king among you, Or has your counselor perished, That writhing has taken hold of you like a woman in childbirth?

¹⁰ Daughter of Zion, Like a woman in childbirth; For now you will go out of the city, Dwell in the field, And go to Babylon. There you will be delivered; There Yahweh will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.

¹¹ Who say, ‘Let her be polluted, And let our eyes behold Zion in triumph.’

¹² And they do not understand His counsel; For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

¹³ For your horn I will make iron, And your hoofs I will make bronze, That you may pulverize many peoples, That you may devote to Yahweh their greedy gain unto destruction And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.