Mic Micah, chapter Book of Micah, chapter 4
In the last days, the mountain where the Lord's Temple stands will be recognized as the highest of all mountains, rising above other hills. Crowds of people from many places will travel to it. Isa 2:2Many nations will come and say, “Let's go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob. There God will teach us his ways and we will follow his directions.”4:2. Literally, “walk in his paths.” God's teachings will spread out from Zion, his word from Jerusalem. Isa 2:3The Lord will decide the cases of the nations, he will settle arguments between distant powerful nations. They will hammer their swords and turn them into plow blades, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not fight against each other anymore; they will no longer learn methods of warfare. Psa 2:6; Jhn 16:8; Isa 2:4Everyone will be able to sit under their own vine and their own fig tree, for there will be no one to make them afraid. I, the Lord Almighty, have spoken! 1Ki 4:25; Isa 32:18; Lev 26:6Even though all the other nations follow their gods, we will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.Zec 14:9
On that day, declares the Lord, I will gather those who are lame, I will bring together those who have been scattered in exile, those whom I punished. Deu 30:3I will make those who remain, crippled and driven far away, into a strong nation, and the Lord will rule them from Mount Zion forever and ever. Zep 3:19; Dan 7:14; Luk 1:33And as for you, Jerusalem,4:8. Literally, “hill of the daughter of Zion.” watchtower of the flock,4:8. Migdal Edar, mentioned in Genesis 35:21 as the place where Jacob camped. your former royal rule and power will be returned to you: the kingdom will be given back to Jerusalem.
So why are you screaming aloud? Don't you have a king? Has the king who advises you died so that pain has gripped you like a woman in childbirth? Zec 9:5Thrash around in agony like a woman giving birth, people of Zion—for you will be expelled from the city, forced to camp out in the open, and exiled to Babylon. But the Lord will bring you back, and rescue you from the power of your enemies.2Ki 19:3; Psa 48:6; Isa 59:20
Right now many enemies are gathered against you, saying, “Let us attack and violate her, so we can look with gloating over Zion!” But they don't know what the Lord is thinking, and don't understand what he is planning. He has brought them together like bundles of grain to the threshing floor. Isa 11:12; Isa 55:8People of Zion, get up and start threshing, for I will make for you iron horns and bronze hooves4:13. As if Jerusalem was like a bull, the Lord will give them the extra strength like metallic horns and hooves to defeat their enemies. so you can break many nations into pieces. You will present their stolen plunder to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.Isa 41:15