A Vision of an Ideal Future

Micah 4:1–5

ca. 1200–332 BCE

1In the days to come,
The Mount of the Lord’s House shall stand
Firm above the mountains;
And it shall tower above the hills.
The peoples shall gaze on it with joy,
2And the many nations shall go and shall say:
“Come,
Let us go up to the Mount of the Lord,
To the House of the God of Jacob;
That He may instruct us in His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction shall come fortha from Zion,
The word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3Thus He will judge among the many peoples,
And arbitrate for the multitude of nations,
However distant;
And they shall beat their swords into plowsharesb
And their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not take up
Sword against nation;
They shall never again know war;
4But every man shall sit
Under his grapevine or fig tree
With no one to disturb him.
For it was the Lord of Hosts who spoke.
5Though all the peoples walk
Each in the names of its gods,
We will walk
In the name of the Lord our God
Forever and ever.
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Notes

I.e., oracles will be obtainable.

More exactly, the iron points with which wooden plows were tipped.

Credits

Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.

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