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These nations don’t know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/micah/4.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/micah/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/micah/4.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/micah/4.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they understand His counsel; For He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/micah/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, And they do not understand His plan; For He has gathered them like sheaves <i>to the</i> threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/micah/4.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, And they do not understand His purpose; For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/micah/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, And they do not understand His purpose; For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/micah/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, And they do not understand His counsel; For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/micah/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“But they (Gentile nations) do not know the thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they understand His purpose <i>and</i> plan; For He has gathered them (Gentiles) like sheaves to the threshing floor [for destruction].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/micah/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But they do not know the LORD’s intentions or understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/micah/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But they do not know the LORD&#8217s intentions or understand His plan, that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/micah/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/micah/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But they don't know that I, the LORD, have gathered them here to grind them like grain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/micah/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshingfloor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/micah/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They don't know the thoughts of the LORD or understand his plan. He will bring them together like cut grain on the threshing floor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/micah/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But these nations do not know what is in the LORD'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 class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/micah/4.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />But they don't know the thoughts of the LORD, and they don't understand his tactics, for he will gather them like harvested grain to his threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/micah/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/micah/4.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />But 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/micah/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/micah/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he will gather them as sheaves into the floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/micah/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/micah/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />They have not known the thoughts of YHWH, "" Nor have they understood His counsel, "" For He has gathered them as a sheaf [into] a threshing-floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/micah/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf into a threshing-floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/micah/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And they knew not the purposes of Jehovah, and they understood not his counsel for he gathered them as sheaves of the threshing-floor.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/micah/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: because he hath gathered them together as the hay of the floor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/micah/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and they have not understood his counsel. For he has gathered them together like hay on a threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/micah/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor understand his plan: He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/micah/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/micah/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither do they understand his counsel; for he shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/micah/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />But they have not known the reasonings of LORD JEHOVAH, and they have not understood his thoughts, for he gathered them as the ears of corn of a threshing floor<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/micah/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, Neither understand they His counsel; For He hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/micah/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/micah/4-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V9AM9A76_xQ?start=668" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/micah/4.htm">The Restoration of Zion</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.” <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1992.htm" title="1992: wə·hêm·māh (Conj-w:: Pro-3mp) -- They. Or hemmah; masculine plural from halak; they.">But they</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">do not</a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: yā·ḏə·‘ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">know</a> <a href="/hebrew/4284.htm" title="4284: maḥ·šə·ḇō·wṯ (N-fpc) -- Thought, device. Or machashebeth; from chashab; a contrivance, i.e. a texture, machine, or intention, plan.">the thoughts</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/995.htm" title="995: hê·ḇî·nū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To discern. A primitive root; to separate mentally, i.e.(generally) understand.">understand</a> <a href="/hebrew/6098.htm" title="6098: ‘ă·ṣā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Counsel, advice. From ya'ats; advice; by implication, plan; also prudence.">His plan,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/6908.htm" title="6908: qib·bə·ṣām (V-Piel-Perf-3ms:: 3mp) -- To gather, collect. A primitive root; to grasp, i.e. Collect.">He has gathered them</a> <a href="/hebrew/5995.htm" title="5995: ke·‘ā·mîr (Prep-k, Art:: N-ms) -- A swath, row of fallen grain. From amar; a bunch of grain.">like sheaves</a> <a href="/hebrew/1637.htm" title="1637: gō·rə·nāh (N-fs:: 3fs) -- Threshing floor. From an unused root meaning to smooth; a threshing- floor; by analogy, any open area.">to the threshing floor.</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-8.htm">Isaiah 55:8-9</a></span><br />“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-7.htm">1 Corinthians 2:7-8</a></span><br />No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. / None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-7.htm">Isaiah 10:7</a></span><br />But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33-34</a></span><br />O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways! / “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/33-10.htm">Psalm 33:10-11</a></span><br />The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples. / The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/19-21.htm">Proverbs 19:21</a></span><br />Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/29-14.htm">Isaiah 29:14</a></span><br />Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/1-19.htm">1 Corinthians 1:19-20</a></span><br />For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” / Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/29-11.htm">Jeremiah 29:11</a></span><br />For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/5-12.htm">Job 5:12-13</a></span><br />He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success. / He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10</a></span><br />I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-28.htm">Romans 8:28</a></span><br />And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/2-1.htm">Psalm 2:1-4</a></span><br />Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? / The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: / “Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/1-9.htm">Ephesians 1:9-11</a></span><br />And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ / as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. / In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/14-24.htm">Isaiah 14:24-27</a></span><br />The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand. / I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.” / This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.</p><p class="hdg">they know.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/55-8.htm">Isaiah 55:8</a></b></br> For my thoughts <i>are</i> not your thoughts, neither <i>are</i> your ways my ways, saith the LORD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/29-11.htm">Jeremiah 29:11</a></b></br> For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33,34</a></b></br> O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable <i>are</i> his judgments, and his ways past finding out! … </p><p class="hdg">for he shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/21-10.htm">Isaiah 21:10</a></b></br> O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/3-12.htm">Joel 3:12,13</a></b></br> Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/zechariah/14-1.htm">Zechariah 14:1-3</a></b></br> Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/micah/2-3.htm">Able</a> <a href="/amos/3-7.htm">Counsel</a> <a href="/amos/9-3.htm">Floor</a> <a href="/micah/4-6.htm">Gather</a> <a href="/micah/4-11.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-11.htm">Gathers</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/daniel/11-27.htm">Minds</a> <a href="/micah/2-1.htm">Plan</a> <a href="/jonah/3-10.htm">Purpose</a> <a href="/amos/2-13.htm">Sheaf</a> <a href="/amos/2-13.htm">Sheaves</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm">Stems</a> <a href="/daniel/7-28.htm">Thoughts</a> <a href="/amos/1-3.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/hosea/13-3.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/hosea/14-9.htm">Understand</a> <a href="/daniel/12-8.htm">Understood</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/zephaniah/1-18.htm">Able</a> <a href="/micah/6-5.htm">Counsel</a> <a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Floor</a> <a href="/micah/5-1.htm">Gather</a> <a href="/micah/7-1.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/micah/7-1.htm">Gathers</a> <a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/matthew/9-4.htm">Minds</a> <a href="/matthew/28-12.htm">Plan</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-11.htm">Purpose</a> <a href="/zechariah/12-6.htm">Sheaf</a> <a href="/zechariah/12-6.htm">Sheaves</a> <a href="/nahum/1-10.htm">Stems</a> <a href="/matthew/5-28.htm">Thoughts</a> <a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Threshing-Floor</a> <a href="/matthew/13-13.htm">Understand</a> <a href="/matthew/13-51.htm">Understood</a><div class="vheading2">Micah 4</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/micah/4-1.htm">The glory,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/micah/4-5.htm">and the peace of Christ's kingdom.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/micah/4-6.htm">The restoration,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/micah/4-11.htm">and victory of the church.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/micah/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/micah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/micah/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD</b><br>This phrase highlights the omniscience of God, contrasting human understanding with divine wisdom. In the biblical context, the nations surrounding Israel often acted in ways that seemed wise to them but were ultimately futile against God's sovereign plans. This echoes <a href="/isaiah/55-8.htm">Isaiah 55:8-9</a>, where God's thoughts and ways are higher than those of humans. It serves as a reminder of the limitations of human wisdom and the need for reliance on divine revelation.<p><b>or understand His plan</b><br>The inability to comprehend God's plan underscores the mystery of divine providence. Historically, the nations around Israel, such as Assyria and Babylon, believed they were acting on their own accord, but they were instruments in God's larger redemptive history. This aligns with <a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33-34</a>, which speaks of the depth of God's wisdom and knowledge. The plan of God often involves unexpected means and outcomes, ultimately pointing to the fulfillment of His purposes in Christ.<p><b>for He has gathered them</b><br>This gathering can be seen as a divine orchestration of events, where God brings nations together for His purposes. In the prophetic literature, God often gathers nations for judgment or to fulfill His covenant promises to Israel. This gathering is reminiscent of the eschatological gathering in <a href="/joel/3-2.htm">Joel 3:2</a>, where God assembles nations for judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. It reflects God's control over history and His ability to use even the actions of nations to accomplish His will.<p><b>like sheaves to the threshing floor</b><br>The imagery of sheaves and the threshing floor is rich with agricultural symbolism, common in the ancient Near East. The threshing floor was a place where grain was separated from chaff, symbolizing judgment and purification. This metaphor suggests that the nations, like sheaves, will be brought to a place of judgment where God will separate the righteous from the wicked. This imagery is also found in <a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Matthew 3:12</a>, where John the Baptist speaks of Jesus gathering His wheat into the barn and burning the chaff with unquenchable fire, pointing to the final judgment and the establishment of God's kingdom.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD</a></b><br>The central figure in this verse, representing God's sovereignty and omniscience. His thoughts and plans are beyond human understanding.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_nations.htm">The Nations</a></b><br>Implicit in the context, these are the enemies of Israel who are gathered against God's people, unaware of God's ultimate plan.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/micah.htm">Micah</a></b><br>The prophet delivering God's message to Israel, providing insight into God's plans and purposes.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/sheaves.htm">Sheaves</a></b><br>A metaphor for the nations gathered for judgment, symbolizing how God will deal with them.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/threshing_floor.htm">Threshing Floor</a></b><br>A place of separation and judgment, where grain is separated from chaff, symbolizing God's judgment and purification process.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Recognize that God is in control, even when circumstances seem chaotic. His plans are perfect and will ultimately prevail.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_plan.htm">Trust in God's Plan</a></b><br>Even when we do not understand God's ways, we are called to trust in His wisdom and timing.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/j/judgment_and_purification.htm">Judgment and Purification</a></b><br>Understand that God's judgment is a process of purification, separating what is valuable from what is not.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/humility_before_god.htm">Humility Before God</a></b><br>Acknowledge our limited understanding and approach God with humility, seeking His guidance and wisdom.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_justice.htm">Hope in God's Justice</a></b><br>Take comfort in knowing that God will bring justice and righteousness, gathering and dealing with the nations according to His perfect plan.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/micah/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">They know not the thoughts of the Lord.</span>--As a commentary upon this passage, we may compare the message of God with reference to the haughty thoughts of Sennacherib. Then the Lord declared that the Assyrian king was but His instrument in all he had done; so that when he presumed to arrogate to himself the glory of his victories, the Lord revoked his commission: "I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou carnest." And so it came to pass.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/micah/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - But the enemies who came to exult over Zion do not know God's design while blindly working it out. God's people are not to be destroyed, but their adversaries. <span class="cmt_word">They know not the thoughts of the Lord.</span> The heathen, who were the instruments of God's wrath against his people, knew nothing of his purpose in thus afflicting them, nor perceived that they themselves were drawn together for punishment. <span class="cmt_word">He shall gather</span> (<span class="accented">hath gathered</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>them as the sheaves into the floor.</span> Their blindness is proved by their not perceiving till too late that God has brought them together before Jerusalem, as sheaves are brought into the threshing floor, in order to be broken up and destroyed (comp. <a href="/isaiah/21-10.htm">Isaiah 21:10</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/51-23.htm">Jeremiah 51:23</a>). The metaphor is carried on in the next verse. Various are the explanations of the prophet's reference in this prophecy. Many commentators see in it a reference to the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (<a href="/2_kings/19-35.htm">2 Kings 19:35</a>); others discern a defeat of the Scythians after the return from captivity; others, again, place it in the times of the Maccabees; and others interpret it of the defeat of the mystical adversaries of God's Church adumbrated in <a href="/ezekiel/38.htm">Ezekiel 38</a>; <a href="/zechariah/12.htm">Zechariah 12</a>; and <a href="/revelation/20.htm">Revelation 20</a>. But the prophet has not one definite event in view, but looks forward to the general conflict between the powers of the world and the Church, of which the historical events and material enemies were the types. Certain historical circumstances may exactly suit the prediction, but they do not exhaust it. And indeed we do wrong to seek for minute and definite fulfilment of particular predictions. Such utterances are often conditional and are modified by subsequent circumstances. The prophets are concerned with great moral truths and the righteous government of the world, and are not always to be interpreted with literal exactness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/micah/4-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">But they</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהֵ֗מָּה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hêm·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1992.htm">Strong's 1992: </a> </span><span class="str2">They</span><br /><br /><span class="word">do not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֤א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">know</span><br /><span class="heb">יָֽדְעוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḏə·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> </span><span class="str2">To know</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the thoughts</span><br /><span class="heb">מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(maḥ·šə·ḇō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4284.htm">Strong's 4284: </a> </span><span class="str2">A contrivance, a texture, machine, intention, plan</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">understand</span><br /><span class="heb">הֵבִ֖ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(hê·ḇî·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_995.htm">Strong's 995: </a> </span><span class="str2">To separate mentally, understand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">His plan:</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲצָת֑וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·ṣā·ṯōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6098.htm">Strong's 6098: </a> </span><span class="str2">Advice, plan, prudence</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">He has gathered them</span><br /><span class="heb">קִבְּצָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(qib·bə·ṣām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6908.htm">Strong's 6908: </a> </span><span class="str2">To gather, collect</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like sheaves</span><br /><span class="heb">כֶּעָמִ֥יר</span> <span class="translit">(ke·‘ā·mîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5995.htm">Strong's 5995: </a> </span><span class="str2">A swath, row of fallen grain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the threshing floor.</span><br /><span class="heb">גֹּֽרְנָה׃</span> <span class="translit">(gō·rə·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1637.htm">Strong's 1637: </a> </span><span class="str2">A threshing-floor, open area</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/micah/4-12.htm">Micah 4:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/micah/4-12.htm">OT Prophets: Micah 4:12 But they don't know the thoughts (Mc Mic. 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