LEB MIC chapter 4

The Mountain of Yahweh

the mountain of Yahweh
- will be established as the highest of the mountains,
and it will be lifted up above the hills,
- and people will stream to it.
2 And many nations will come and say, “Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
- and to the temple[fn] of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways,
- and that we may walk in his paths,”
for the law will go out from Zion,
- and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
- 3 And he will judge between many peoples and will arbitrate for strong nations far away;
and they will beat their swords into plowshares
- and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation will not lift up a sword against a nation,
- and they will no longer learn war.
- 4 But they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid,
- for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.
- 5 For all the nations walk, each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God,
- forever and ever.

Yahweh Will Deliver Zion

and I will gather the one who has been scattered,
- and those whom I have mistreated.
- 7 And I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a strong nation,
and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion
- from now to forever.
- 8 And you, O Migdal-Eder,[fn] hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you it will come,
- and the former dominion will come,
- the reign of the daughter of Jerusalem.
- 9 So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished
- that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?
- 10 Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor.
For now you will go forth from the city,
- and you will camp in the field;
- you will go to Babylon.
There you will be rescued;
- there Yahweh will redeem you
- from the hand of your enemies.
- 11 And now, many nations are gathered against you who are saying, ‘Let her be defiled,
- and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.’
- 12 But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, and they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves
- to his threshing floor.
- 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make as iron
- and your hooves as bronze.
And you will break many peoples in pieces,
- and their gain you will devote to destruction to Yahweh,
- and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.”

4:? Literally “house”

4:? Literally “a declaration of Yahweh”

4:? Or “tower of the flock”

LEB MIC Chapter 4