Mikha 4:6

Restoration Will Follow Crisis

4:6 “In that day,” says the Lord, “I will gather the lame,

and assemble the outcasts whom I injured. ¹ 

Mikha 4:13

4:13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!

For I will give you iron horns; ² 

I will give you bronze hooves,

and you will crush many nations.” ³ 

You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,

and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler ⁴  of the whole earth. ⁵ 

[4:6]  ¹ sn The exiles of the nation are compared to lame and injured sheep.

[4:13]  ² tn Heb “I will make your horn iron.”

[4:13]  ³ sn Jerusalem (Daughter Zion at the beginning of the verse; cf. 4:8) is here compared to a powerful ox which crushes the grain on the threshing floor with its hooves.

[4:13]  ⁴ tn Or “the Lord” (so many English versions); Heb “the master.”

[4:13]  ⁵ tn 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.

[4:13]  sn In vv. 11-13 the prophet jumps from the present crisis (which will result in exile, v. 10) to a time beyond the restoration of the exiles when God will protect his city from invaders. The Lord’s victory over the Assyrian armies in 701 b.c. foreshadowed this.