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          DASV: Micah 4

1 But in the last days the mountain of the LORD's house
          will be established as the chief of the mountains,
     and it will be lifted above the hills,
          and peoples will flow to it.
2 Many nations will come and say,
     "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
           and to the house of the God of Jacob.
     He will teach us his ways,
           and we will walk in his paths."
     For the law will go forth out of Zion,
           and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 He will judge between many peoples,
          and will settle disputes of strong nations far away.
     They will beat their swords into plowshares,
          and their spears into pruning hooks.
     Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
          nor will they learn war anymore.
4 But each person will sit under his own vine
          and under his fig tree,
      and no one will make them afraid,
          for the mouth of LORD of hosts has promised it.
5 For all the peoples walk everyone in the name of their god;
     but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

6 "In that day," says the LORD,
     "I will assemble those who are lame,
     and I will gather those who were driven away,
           those whom I afflicted.
7 I will make the lame a remnant,
          and those who were cast off a strong nation.
      The LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion
          from now and forever."
8 As for you, O guard tower of the flock,
     the hill of the daughter of Zion,
      to you it will come,
     the former dominion will come,
           the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why do you cry out so loud?
     Is there no king among you?
     Is your sage ruler perished?
     Is that why pangs have taken hold of you
           like a woman in labor?
10 Writhe in pain and groan, O daughter of Zion,
           like a woman in labor;
      for now you must leave the city,
      and live in the open field,
           and will go to Babylon.
      There you will be rescued;
           there the LORD will redeem you
           from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now many nations are assembled against you.
      They say, "Let her be defiled,
           and let our eye gloat over Zion."
12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD,
     nor do they understand his plan;
      for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
     for I will make your horns iron,
           and I will make your hooves bronze.
      So you will beat into pieces many peoples."
     You will devote their stolen gain to the LORD,
           and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
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