Micah 4 - Christian Standard Bible（CSB）

The Lord

’s Rule from Restored Zion

1In the last days 

the mountain of the  Lord’s house 

will be established

at the top of the mountains

and will be raised above the hills.

Peoples will stream to it, 

2and many nations will come and say, 

“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the  Lord, 

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us about his ways 

so we may walk in his paths.”

For instruction will go out of Zion 

and the word of the  Lord from Jerusalem.

3He will settle disputes among many peoples 

and provide arbitration for strong nations

that are far away.

They will beat their swords into plows

and their spears into pruning knives.

Nation will not take up the sword against nation,

and they will never again train for war.

4But each person will sit under his grapevine 

and under his fig tree

with no one to frighten him. 

For the mouth of the Lord   of Armies

has spoken.

5Though all the peoples walk

in the name of their own gods, 

we will walk  in the name of the  Lord  our God

forever and ever. 

6On that day —

this is the  Lord’s declaration —

I will assemble the lame

and gather the scattered, 

those I have injured.

7I will make the lame into a remnant, 

those far removed into a strong nation.

Then the Lord will reign over them  in Mount Zion

from this time on and forever.

8And you, watchtower for the flock, 

fortified hill  of Daughter Zion,

the former rule  will come to you;

sovereignty will come to Daughter Jerusalem.

From Exile to Victory

9Now, why are you shouting loudly? 

Is there no king with you?

Has your counselor perished 

so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

10Writhe and cry out,  ,

Daughter Zion,

like a woman in labor,

for now you will leave the city 

and camp in the open fields.

You will go to Babylon;

there you will be rescued; 

there the Lord will redeem you 

from the grasp of your enemies!

11Many nations have now assembled against you; 

they say, “Let her be defiled,

and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”

12But they do not know the  Lord’s intentions 

or understand his plan,

that he has gathered them

like sheaves to the threshing floor.

13Rise and thresh,  Daughter Zion,

for I will make your horns iron

and your hooves bronze

so you can crush many peoples. 

Then you  will set apart their plunder 

for the Lord,

their wealth for the Lord of the whole earth.