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Micah 4 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. Then it will be that in the latter days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be establishedas head of the mountains,and will be lifted up above the hills;and people will stream to it.

2. And many nations will come and say, “Come, that we might go up to the mountain of the Lord,and to the house of the God of Jacob,that He might teach us His ways,and that we might walk in His paths.”For from Zion will go forth the law,and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

3. Then He will judge between many peoplesand mediate for mighty nations far and wide;they will beat their swords into plowshares,and their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will not take up sword against nation,and they will no longer train for war.

4. Then each man will sit under his vineand under his fig tree,and no one will make them afraid;for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

5. For all the peoples may walk,each in the name of his God,but we will walk in the name of the Lordour God forever and ever.

6. In that day, declares the Lord, I will assemble the lameand gather the banishedand those whom I have afflicted;

7. and I will make the lame into a remnant,and the banished into a mighty nation;and the Lord will reign over them on Mount Zionfrom this time forth and forevermore.

8. As for you, watchtower of the flock,citadel of the daughter of Zion,to you it will come, the former dominion will come,kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

9. Now why do you cry loudly?Have you no king?Has your counselor perished,that agony has seized you like the woman in labor?

10. Writhe and bring forth, daughter of Zion,like the woman in labor,because now you will go forth from the cityand reside in the field,and you will come to Babylon.There you will be rescued;there the Lord will redeem youfrom the hand of your enemies.

11. But now many nationsare gathered against you, saying,“May she be defiled,and may our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

12. But they do not knowthe thoughts of the Lord,and they do not understand His plan,that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

13. Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,for I will make your horn iron;your hoofs I will make bronze,and you will shatter many peoples. I will devote their pillage to the Lord,their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.