LEB MIC Chapter 4

The Mountain of Yahweh

• 4 And it will be that at the end of those days,
• 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

• 6 “In that day,” declares Yahweh,[fn]
  • “I will assemble the one who limps,
• 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.”