Thus says the Lord concerning (A)the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
(B)who cry “Peace”
    when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
    who puts nothing into their mouths.
Therefore (C)it shall be night to you, without vision,
    and darkness to you, without divination.
(D)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
    and the day shall be black over them;
(E)the seers shall be disgraced,
    and the diviners put to shame;
(F)they shall all cover their lips,
    for (G)there is no answer from God.
But as for me, (H)I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob (I)his transgression
    and to Israel his sin.

(J)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
    and rulers of the house of Israel,
(K)who detest justice
    and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (L)who build Zion with blood
    and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (M)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
    (N)its priests teach for a price;
    (O)its prophets practice divination for money;
(P)yet they lean on the Lord and (Q)say,
    “Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
    (R)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
    (S)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (T)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and (U)the mountain of the house (V)a wooded height.

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The Mountain of the Lord

It shall come to pass (A)in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
    and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall (B)beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore;
(C)but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    (D)and no one shall make them afraid,
    (E)for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 4:2 Or teaching

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