Micah 4:12-13
EasyEnglish Bible
12 But they do not know the Lord's thoughts.
They do not understand how he will punish them.
He will bring them together,
as people bring bundles of wheat together at harvest time.[a]
He will punish them,
as people thresh wheat to get the seeds out.[b]
13 ‘People in Zion, get up and fight your enemies,’ God says to you.
‘Hit them like people thresh the wheat.
I will make you very strong.
Then you will be like dangerous animals with iron horns and metal feet.[c]
You will beat enemies from many countries,
as men crush things into small pieces.
The people from those countries became rich,
because they did bad things.
But you will bring their riches to me,
because I am the Lord of all the earth.’[d]
Footnotes
- 4:12 A bundle is many things that people have tied together (like wheat plants).
- 4:12 Wheat is a kind of plant that people grow on farms. They use the seeds to make flour for bread. To thresh means to hit wheat on the ground to get the seeds out.
- 4:13 Horns are things like sticks that grow on the top of some animals' heads, like cows and some sheep. Horns have points at their ends.
- 4:13 Verses 9-13 These verses tell what will happen to Jerusalem and Israel in future days. They tell about enemies who will come soon (from Assyria). And they tell about enemies who will come later (from Babylon). But they tell also how God will save his people.
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