The Mountain of the House of the LORD (Micah 4:1–5)
3 UDB People from many peoples will say to each other, "Come, let us go up to the hill, to the temple of Yahweh, to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped. There he will teach us what he desires us to know so that our behavior will please him." They will teach us in Jerusalem; we will learn there what Yahweh desires to tell us. 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 UDB Yahweh will listen to the disputes between nations, and he will settle their arguments. Then, instead of fighting against each other, they will hammer their swords into plow blades, and they will hammer their spears into pruning knives. The armies of the nations will no longer fight against each other, and they will not even train men to fight in battles. 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 UDB You descendants of Jacob, let us behave in the way that we should because Yahweh is with us! BSB BSB: Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 UDB Yahweh, you have abandoned us, your people who are descendants of Jacob, because everywhere your people practice the customs of people who live east of Israel. They also perform rituals to find out what will happen in the future, as the people in Philistia do. They make agreements with foreigners who do not know Yahweh. 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 UDB Israel is full of silver and gold; there are very many treasures here. The land is full of war horses and war chariots. 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 UDB But the land is also full of idols; the people worship things that they have made with their own hands. BSB BSB: Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
9 UDB So now they will be humbled; Yahweh will disgrace them. Yahweh, do not forgive them! BSB BSB: So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!
10 UDB All you people should crawl into the caves in the rock cliffs! You should hide in pits in the ground because you will be afraid of Yahweh and of his glorious and awesome power. BSB BSB: Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.
11 UDB Yahweh will cause you people to no longer be arrogant and he will stop you from being proud. On that day people will praise and honor only Yahweh. 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 UDB Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has chosen a day when he will judge those who are proud, every one of them, and he will humble them. 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 UDB He will get rid of all those who think others should admire them, like the tall cedar trees in Lebanon and like all the great oak trees in the region of Bashan. BSB BSB: against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 UDB He will get rid of all those who think they are as great as all the high hills, as great as the high mountains. BSB BSB: against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,
15 UDB He will get rid of all those who think that they are like high towers and high strong walls inside of which they are safe. BSB BSB: against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
16 UDB He will destroy all those who are rich because they own big ships that carry goods to other countries and also own other beautiful ships. BSB BSB: against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
17 UDB He will cause people to no longer be arrogant, and he will cause them to stop being proud. On that day people will praise and honor only Yahweh. 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 UDB All idols will disappear then. BSB BSB: and the idols will vanish completely.
19 UDB When Yahweh comes to terrify the people on the earth, they will run to hide in caves in rock cliffs and in holes in the ground because they are afraid of Yahweh and of his glorious and awesome power. 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 UDB On that day, people will get rid of all of their gold and silver idols that they made to worship, and they will throw them to the bats and rats. 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 UDB Then they will crawl into caves and hide in holes in the cliffs. They will try to escape from Yahweh, who is coming to punish them; They will fear what he will do because he is glorious and awesome, when he comes to terrify the people on 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 UDB So do not trust that people will save you, because they are as powerless as a person's breath. People certainly cannot help you! 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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