The Mountain of the House of the LORD (Micah 4:1–5)
3 DRA And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up 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 shall come forth from Sion, 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 DRA And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war. 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 DRA O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. BSB BSB: Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 DRA For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children. 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 DRA Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures. 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 DRA And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own 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 DRA And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not. BSB BSB: So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!
10 DRA Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face 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 DRA The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and 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 DRA Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he 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 DRA And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan. BSB BSB: against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 DRA And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated hills. BSB BSB: against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,
15 DRA And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall. BSB BSB: against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
16 DRA And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold. BSB BSB: against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
17 DRA And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, 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 DRA And idols shall be utterly destroyed. BSB BSB: and the idols will vanish completely.
19 DRA And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise 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 DRA In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and 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 DRA And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise 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 DRA Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high. 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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