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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Micah 4 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/micah/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Universal Reign of Peace</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="ISA 2:2-4">Isaiah 2.2-4</ref>)</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_1"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.1" class="v33_4_1">1</span>In days to come</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_1">the mountain where the Temple stands</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_1">will be the highest one of all,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_1">towering above all the hills.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_1">Many nations will come streaming to it,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_2"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.2" class="v33_4_2">2</span>and their people will say,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_2">“Let us go up the hill of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>,<a href="#fn" id="link_Mic.4.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_2">to the Temple of Israel's God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_2">He will teach us what he wants us to do;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_2">we will walk in the paths he has chosen.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_2">For the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s teaching comes from Jerusalem;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_2">from Zion he speaks to his people.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_3"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.3" class="v33_4_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mic.4.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He will settle disputes among the nations,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_3">among the great powers near and far.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_3">They will hammer their swords into plows</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_3">and their spears into pruning knives.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_3">Nations will never again go to war,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_3">never prepare for battle again.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_4"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.4" class="v33_4_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Mic.4.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Everyone will live in peace</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_4">among their own vineyards and fig trees,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v33_4_4">and no one will make them afraid.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v33_4_4">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty has promised this.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v33_4_5"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.5" class="v33_4_5">5</span>Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God forever and ever.</span></p><h3 class="s">Israel Will Return from Exile</h3><p class="par"><span class="v33_4_6"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.6" class="v33_4_6">6</span>“The time is coming,” says the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, “when I will gather together the people I punished, those who have suffered in exile. </span><span class="v33_4_7"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.7" class="v33_4_7">7</span>They are crippled and far from home, but I will make a new beginning with those who are left, and they will become a great nation. I will rule over them on Mount Zion from that time on and forever.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v33_4_8"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.8" class="v33_4_8">8</span>And you, Jerusalem, where God, like a shepherd from his lookout tower, watches over his people, will once again be the capital of the kingdom that was yours. </span><span class="v33_4_9"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.9" class="v33_4_9">9</span>Why do you cry out so loudly? Why are you suffering like a woman in labor? Is it because you have no king, and your counselors are dead? </span><span class="v33_4_10"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.10" class="v33_4_10">10</span>Twist and groan,<a href="#fn" id="link_Mic.4.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> people of Jerusalem, like a woman giving birth, for now you will have to leave the city and live in the open country. You will have to go to Babylon, but there the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will save you from your enemies. </span><span class="v33_4_11"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.11" class="v33_4_11">11</span>Many nations have gathered to attack you. They say, “Jerusalem must be destroyed! We will see this city in ruins!” </span><span class="v33_4_12"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.12" class="v33_4_12">12</span>But these nations do not know what is in the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s mind. They do not realize that they have been gathered together to be punished in the same way that grain is brought in to be threshed.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v33_4_13"><span class="reftext" id="Mic.4.13" class="v33_4_13">13</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “People of Jerusalem, go and punish your enemies! I will make you as strong as a bull with iron horns and bronze hoofs. You will crush many nations, and the wealth they got by violence you will present to me, the Lord of the whole world.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.2: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">hill of the <char style="nd">Lord</char>: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Mount Zion (see Zion in Word List).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.10: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">groan; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">bring forth.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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