Micah 4:13

Translations

Modern

Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Traditional

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Literal

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion. For your horn I will set as iron, and your hooves I will set as bronze; and you will crush many peoples, and you will devote to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Latin

Surge, et tritura, filia Sion, quia cornu tuum ponam ferreum, et ungulas tuas ponam æreas; et comminues populos multos, et interficies Domino rapinas eorum, et fortitudinem eorum Domino universæ terræ.

Original

Hebrew

English

Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Notes

Micah 4:13

The horns and hooves of bulls and horses symbolize strength, just like iron and bronze. People may have used metal shoes on animals that helped with farming. God will give strength to his people to defeat their enemies.
their gain: Many nations gathered wealth unfairly through war, plunder, heavy taxes, forced labor, and conscription. The Lord of all the earth originally owned all this wealth (Exodus 19:5).
you will devote: The Hebrew term (kharam, meaning “dedicate”) refers to war spoils set aside as holy to the Lord (see Leviticus 27:28–29).

Micah 4:11–13

assembled against you: This refers first to the attack of Babylon against Jerusalem in 588–586 BC. At the same time, it also points to a future attack against a restored and ideal Jerusalem described in Micah 4:1–5 (compare Revelation 20:7–9).

Micah 3:1–5:15

This message accuses the evil leaders who harmed God's people. It contrasts them with a vision of God's kingdom and a righteous king's rule. After facing judgment and exile, a purified Israel would return and receive God's blessings.

Events

Prophecies of Micahc. 754 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 41:15–16
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
Daniel 2:44
In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
Isaiah 18:7
At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
Isaiah 23:18
Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
Revelation 2:26–27
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
Revelation 21:24–26
By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.
Zechariah 6:5
And the angel told me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth from their station before the Lord of all the earth.
1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.
Romans 15:25–28
Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.
Psalm 68:29
Because of Your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring You gifts.
Zechariah 4:14
So he said, “These are the two anointed ones who are standing beside the Lord of all the earth.”
Joshua 6:19
For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”

Parallels

Zechariah 8:1–23

Places

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions

Glossary

Book of Micah Lamentations, Book of Minerals and Metals

Topics

Copper Brass: Strength Given to Saints God: Sovereign Horn: Symbolical Horns: (Pushing With) Conquests Iron Sharpens Iron Iron: First Recorded Use of Horn Threshing of the Church in Her Conquests

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