Micah 4:13

Strength and help in weakness Israel and the nations

¹¹ But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”

¹² 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.

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.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
WEB: Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze. You will beat in pieces many peoples. I will devote their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
ASV: Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
DARBY: Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
BLB: Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion. For your horn I will set as iron, and your hooves I will set as bronze; and you will crush many peoples, and you will devote to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

ÅB: Reis deg og tresk, Sions datter!
For hornet ditt vil jeg gjøre til jern
og klauvene dine til kobber.
Du skal knuse mange folk.
Jeg vil vie rovet deres til Herren
og godset deres til all jordens herre.
OTB: Stå opp og tresk, Sions datter,
For jeg vil gjøre ditt horn av jern,
Og jeg vil gjøre dine hover av bronse,
Slik at du kan knuse mange folk,
Og vie til Herren deres urettferdige vinning,
Og deres rikdom til hele jordens Herre.
B1930: Stå op og tresk, du Sions datter! For ditt horn vil jeg gjøre til jern, og dine klover vil jeg gjøre til kobber, og du skal knuse mange folk, og jeg vil lyse deres rov i bann til Herren og deres gods til all jordens herre.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 41:15–16
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
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Isaiah 18:7
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
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Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
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Romans 15:25–28
Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.
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And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
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