Mic 2:12 | NETfull | STEP | I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.

Micah 2:12

The Lord Will Restore His People

12 I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob,
I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. ^{▼▼ Heb “the remnant of Israel.”}
I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, ^{▼▼ The MT reads בָּצְרָה (batsrah, “Bozrah”) but the form should be emended to בַּצִּרָה (batsirah, “into the fold”). See D. R. Hillers, Micah (Hermeneia), 38.}
like a flock in the middle of a pasture; ^{▼▼ The MT reads “its pasture,” but the final vav (ו) belongs with the following verb. See GKC 413 #127.i.}
they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise. ^{▼▼ Heb “and they will be noisy [or perhaps, “excited”] from men.” The subject of the third feminine plural verb תְּהִימֶנָה (t^ehimenah, “they will be noisy”) is probably the feminine singular צֹאן (tso’n, “flock”). (For another example of this collective singular noun with a feminine plural verb, see Gen 30:38.) In the construction מֵאָדָם (me’adam, “from men”) the preposition is probably causal. L. C. Allen translates “bleating in fear of men” (Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah [NICOT], 300), but it is possible to take the causal sense as “because of the large quantity of men.” In this case the sheep metaphor and the underlying reality are mixed.}