Micah 4 (NET)

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Micah 4:1¹And in future days the Lord ’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; it will be more prominent than other hills. People will stream to it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 2:1-4 Jer 3:17 Acts 2:17 Ps 22:27 Zech 14:16-21 Ps 86:9 Zech 8:3 Ezek 43:12 Hos 3:5 Mal 1:11

Micah 4:2²Many nations will come, saying, “Come on! Let’s go up to the Lord ’s mountain, to the temple of Jacob’s God, so he can teach us his ways and we can live by his laws.” For instruction will proceed from Zion, the Lord ’s message from Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 2:3 Jer 31:6 Acts 1:8 Isa 54:13 Ps 25:12 Ps 25:8-9 Zech 14:8-9 Isa 42:1-4 Jas 1:19-25 John 7:17

Micah 4:3³He will arbitrate between many peoples and settle disputes between many distant nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not use weapons against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 2:4 Joel 3:9-16 Matt 25:31-32 Hos 2:18 Acts 17:31 Isa 65:25 John 5:22-23 John 5:27-29 Ps 110:5-6 Ps 96:13

Micah 4:4⁴Each will sit under his own grapevine or under his own fig tree without any fear. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has decreed it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 3:10 1 Kgs 4:25 Ezek 39:26 Isa 1:20 Isa 54:14 Isa 58:14 Ezek 34:28 Isa 40:5 Ezek 34:25 Ezek 38:11

Micah 4:7⁷I will transform the lame into the nucleus of a new nation, and those far off into a mighty nation. The Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion, from that day forward and forevermore.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:14 Isa 24:23 Luke 1:33 Mic 2:12 Mic 5:7-8 Mic 7:18 Isa 9:6-7 Mic 5:3 Rev 11:15 Dan 7:27

Micah 4:8⁸As for you, watchtower for the flock, fortress of Daughter Zion — your former dominion will be restored, the sovereignty that belongs to Daughter Jerusalem.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:26 Rev 22:5 Zech 9:10 Dan 2:44 Gen 35:21 Obad 1:21 Zech 9:12 2 Sam 5:7 Eph 1:21 Mark 12:1

Micah 4:9⁹Jerusalem, why are you now shouting so loudly? Has your king disappeared? Has your wise leader been destroyed? Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 8:19 Isa 3:1-7 Lam 4:20 Hos 10:3 Hos 13:10-11 Hos 3:4 Isa 13:8 Isa 21:3 Isa 26:17 Jer 22:23

Micah 4:10¹⁰Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the Lord will deliver you from the power of your enemies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 48:20 2 Kgs 20:18 Hos 13:13 Hos 2:14 Isa 43:14 Isa 45:13 Isa 52:9-12 2 Chr 36:20 Hos 1:10 Isa 66:7-9

Micah 4:11¹¹Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Obad 1:12 Isa 5:25-30 Mic 7:10 Isa 8:7-8 Jer 52:4 Joel 3:2-15 Lam 2:15-16

Micah 4:12¹²But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 55:8 Jer 29:11 Rom 11:33-34 Joel 3:12-13 Luke 3:17 Zech 14:1-3 Isa 21:10 Rev 14:14-20

Micah 4:13¹³“Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations.” You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler of the whole earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 41:15-16 Dan 2:44 Isa 18:7 Isa 23:18 1 Cor 16:2 Rev 2:26-27 Rev 21:24-26 Rom 15:25-28 Zech 6:5 2 Sam 8:10-11