The Mountain of the House of the LORD (Micah 4:1–5)
3 UEB Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, so he may teach us some of his ways, and we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go the law, and the word of Yahweh 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 UEB He will judge between the nations and will render decisions for many peoples; they will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up sword against nation, nor will they train for war any longer. 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 UEB House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. BSB BSB: Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 UEB For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east and they practice divination like the Philistines, and they shake hands with sons of foreigners. 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 UEB Their land is full of silver and gold, and is there no limit to their wealth; their land also is full of horses, nor is there limit to their 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 UEB Their land also is full of idols; they worship the craftsmanship of their own hands, things that 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 UEB The people will be bowed down, and individuals will fall down; therefore do not raise them up. BSB BSB: So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!
10 UEB Go into the rocky places and hide in the ground from the terror of Yahweh 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 UEB The lofty gaze of man will be brought low, and the pride of men will be brought down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on 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 UEB For there will be a day of Yahweh of hosts against everyone who is proud and raised up, and against everyone who is arrogant—and he will be brought down— 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 UEB and against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan. BSB BSB: against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 UEB That day of Yahweh of hosts will be against all the high mountains, and against all the hills that are lifted up, BSB BSB: against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,
15 UEB and against every high tower, and against every impregnable wall, BSB BSB: against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
16 UEB and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all beautiful sailing vessels. BSB BSB: against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
17 UEB The pride of man will be brought low, and the haughtiness of men will fall; Yahweh alone will be exalted on 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 UEB The idols will completely pass away. BSB BSB: and the idols will vanish completely.
19 UEB Men will go into the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify 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 UEB On that day people will throw away their idols of silver and of gold that they have made for themselves to worship—they will throw them away to the 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 UEB The people will go into the crevices in the rocks and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify 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 UEB Stop trusting in man, whose life-breath is in his nostrils, for what does he amount to? 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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