The Mountain of the House of the LORD (Micah 4:1–5)
3 CPDV And many peoples will go, and they will say: “Let us approach and ascend to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. BSB BSB: And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 CPDV And he will judge the nations, and he will rebuke many peoples. And they shall forge their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they continue to train for battle. BSB BSB: Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
The Day of Reckoning 5 CPDV O house of Jacob, let us approach and walk in the light of the Lord. BSB BSB: Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 CPDV For you have cast aside your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled up, as in past times, and because they have had soothsayers as the Philistines have, and because they have joined themselves to foreign servants. BSB BSB: For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
7 CPDV Their land has been filled with silver and gold. And there is no end to their storehouses. BSB BSB: Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
8 CPDV And their land has been filled with horses. And their four-horse chariots are innumerable. And their land has been filled with idols. They have adored the work of their hands, which their own fingers have made. BSB BSB: Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
9 CPDV And man has bowed himself down, and so man has become debased. Therefore, you should not forgive them. BSB BSB: So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!
10 CPDV Enter into the rock, and hide in a ditch in the soil, from the presence of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. BSB BSB: Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.
11 CPDV The lofty eyes of man have been humbled, and the haughtiness of men will be bowed down. Then the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day. BSB BSB: The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
12 CPDV For the day of the Lord of hosts will prevail over all the proud and self-exalted, and over all the arrogant, and each one shall be humbled, BSB BSB: For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—
13 CPDV and over all the straight and tall cedars of Lebanon, and over all the oaks of Bashan; BSB BSB: against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 CPDV and over all the lofty mountains, and over all the elevated hills; BSB BSB: against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,
15 CPDV and over every lofty tower, and over every fortified wall; BSB BSB: against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
16 CPDV and over all the ships of Tarshish, and over all the beauty that may be seen. BSB BSB: against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
17 CPDV And the loftiness of men will be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men will be brought low. And the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day. BSB BSB: So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
18 CPDV And idols will be thoroughly crushed. BSB BSB: and the idols will vanish completely.
19 CPDV And they will go into the caves of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, from the presence of the dread of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he will have risen up to strike the earth. BSB BSB: Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
20 CPDV In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats. BSB BSB: In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
21 CPDV And so he will go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of stone, from the presence of the dread of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he will have risen up to strike the earth. BSB BSB: They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
22 CPDV Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted. BSB BSB: Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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