Micah 4
1BUT it shall come to pass in the last of these days, that the mountain of the Lord shall be conspicuous: it shall be established on the tops of the mountains, and raised high above the hills; and peoples shall hasten to it.
2And many nations shall come—they will say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; that they may point out to us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Sion shall go forth a law; and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3And He will judge among many peoples, and rebuke nations of extensive power. And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall no more lift up a sword against nation; nor shall they any more learn to fight.
4But they shall rest every man under his own vine, and every man under his own fig tree; and there shall be none to make them afraid. Because the mouth of the Lord Almighty hath spoken these things—
5because all the people will walk each one in his own way, let us therefore walk in the name of the Lord our God until that age and beyond it.
6In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that hath been bruised, and take back her who was cast off and them whom I had put away;
7and I will make the bruised a remnant, and her who was put away, a mighty nation. And the Lord will reign over them on mount Sion henceforth and forever.
8And as for thee, thou squalid tower of a flock, thou daughter of Sion; to thee He will come, when the chiefdom, the first royal government shall have come from Babylon for the daughter of Jerusalem.
9Now therefore why hast thou known evils? Was there no king for thee? Or was thy counsel destroyed, that pangs of a woman in travail have seized thee?
10Be in pangs, but take courage and draw near to delivery, O daughter of Sion. For thou art now to go from a city and to make thy abode in a field, and go even to Babylon. Thence He will deliver thee; yes, thence the Lord thy God will redeem thee out of the hands of thine enemies.
11Now indeed many nations are assembled against thee, saying, Let us rejoice exceedingly and let our eyes look upon Sion.
12But they did not know the determination of the Lord nor understand His counsel. Because He hath gathered them as sheaves for a threshing floor,
13arise, daughter of Sion and tread them out. Because I will make thy horns iron and thy hoofs I will make brass; therefore thou shalt break many peoples in pieces, and devote the multitude of them to the Lord, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.