Micah 4:12-13
12 But they do not know what the Lord is planning;they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed ▼
▼ The words “to be threshed” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the Lord is planning to enable “Daughter Zion” to “thresh” her enemies.
at the threshing floor. 13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!
For I will give you iron horns; ▼
▼ Heb “I will make your horn iron.”
I will give you bronze hooves,
and you will crush many nations.” ▼
You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,
and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler ▼
▼ Or “the Lord” (so many English versions); Heb “the master.”
of the whole earth. ▼▼ Heb “and their wealth to the master of all the earth.” The verb “devote” does double duty in the parallelism and is supplied in the second line for clarification.
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