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Micah 4

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1 But it shall be in the last days, that the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established on the head of the mountains, and it shall be lifted·​·up from the hills; and peoples shall flow·​·together to it.

2 And many nations shall walk and say, Go, and let us go·​·up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will instruct us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths; for the law shall go·​·out from Zion, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

3 And He shall judge between many peoples, and reprove numerous nations afar·​·off; and they shall beat their swords into mattocks, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift a sword against nation, and they shall not learn war any·​·more.

4 But they shall sit, a man under his vine and under his fig·​·tree, and none shall frighten them; for the mouth of Jehovah of Armies has spoken it.

5 For all the people will walk each·​·man in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our god to eternity and forever.

6 In that day, says Jehovah, I will gather her who limps, and I will bring·​·together her who is expelled, and to whom I have done·​·evil.

7 And I will set her who limped to be left, and her who was driven beyond, for a numerous nation; and Jehovah shall reign over them in Mount Zion, from now and even·​·to eternity.

8 And thou, O tower of the drove*, the summit of the daughter of Zion, to thee shall it come; and the rule of the first shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

9 Now why dost thou shout with shouting? Is there no king in thee? Shall thy counselor perish? For thou art held·​·firm with travailing as a woman giving·​·birth.

10 Travail, and bring·​·out, O daughter of Zion, as a woman giving·​·birth; for now shalt thou go·​·out from the city, and thou shalt inhabit the field, and thou shalt come even to Babylon; there shalt thou be rescued; there Jehovah shall redeem thee from the palm of the hand of thine enemies.

11 And now many nations are gathered against thee, who say, Let her be·​·contaminated, and let our eyes behold against Zion.

12 But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they His counsel; for He shall bring· them ·together as the sheaves of the threshing·​·floor.

13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will set thy horn as iron, and I will set thy hoofs as bronze, and thou shalt make·​·thin many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their belongings to the Lord of all the earth.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Mountain

  

The Lord's love is the sun of heaven, and it is natural for us to look above ourselves to the sun of this world in thinking about the Lord. It follows, then, that to be closer to the Lord we would climb into the highest places -- and indeed, people have been worshiping on mountains for ages. In fact, even steeples on modern churches are symbolic mountains. It makes sense, then, that a mountain in the Bible represents love to the Lord, the highest, purest love we human beings can experience. Mountains can also represent the desire for good that comes from the love of the Lord. Hills, meanwhile, represent a love of other people and a caring for them, and when "mountains" is used in the plural it generally represents both loves.