The Book of MICAH - Chapter Four

The Book of MICAH - Chapter Four

1 In the last days 

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and peoples will stream to it.

2 Many nations will come and say,

‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.’
The law will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

3 

He will judge between many peoples
    and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.
They will beat their swords into ploughshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
    nor will they train for war any more.

4 

Everyone will sit under their own vine
    and under their own fig-tree,
and no one will make them afraid,
    for the Lord Almighty has spoken.

5 

All the nations may walk
    in the name of their gods,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord
    our God for ever and ever.

6 ‘In that day,’ declares the Lord,

‘I will gather the lame;
    I will assemble the exiles
    and those I have brought to grief.

7 

I will make the lame my remnant,
    those driven away a strong nation.
The Lord will rule over them in Mount Zion
    from that day and for ever.

8 

As for you, watchtower of the flock,
    stronghold of Daughter Zion,
the former dominion will be restored to you;
    kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.’

9 

Why do you now cry aloud –
    have you no king?
Has your ruler perished,
    that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labour?

10 

Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labour,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

11 

But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, ‘Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat over Zion!’

12 

But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.

13 

‘Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.’
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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READINGS 

The Book of MICAH

Chapter Four

Read by David Suchet

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OVERVIEW

The Book of MICAH (The Bible Project)

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Micah 4 : Baruch Korman

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The Book of MICAH - Chapter Three

The Book of MICAH

Chapter Three

1 Then I said, 

‘Listen, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel.
Should you not embrace justice,

2 

    you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;

3 

who eat my people’s flesh,
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;
who chop them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot.’

4 

Then they will cry out to the Lord,
    but he will not answer them.
At that time he will hide his face from them
    because of the evil they have done.

5 This is what the Lord says:

‘As for the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
they proclaim “peace”
    if they have something to eat,
but prepare to wage war against anyone
    who refuses to feed them.

6 

Therefore night will come over you, without visions,
    and darkness, without divination.
The sun will set for the prophets,
    and the day will go dark for them.

7 

The seers will be ashamed
    and the diviners disgraced.
They will all cover their faces
    because there is no answer from God.’

8 

But as for me, I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression,
    to Israel his sin.

9 

Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
    and distort all that is right;

10 

who build Zion with bloodshed,
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.

11 

Her leaders judge for a bribe,
    her priests teach for a price,
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.
Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say,
    ‘Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.’

12 

Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be ploughed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
    the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

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READINGS 

The Book of MICAH

Chapter Three

Read by David Suchet

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OVERVIEW

The Book of MICAH (The Bible Project)

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STUDY - LINKS

The Book of MICAH

(David Pawson) 

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                               Micah 3-5 | Sword into Plows | Bible Study

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Micah 3 : Baruch Korman

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