The Restoration of Jerusalem
(Micah 4:6–13)

1And the word of YHWH of Hosts came, saying, 2thus says YHWH of Hosts: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and with great rage I am jealous for her!”

3Thus says YHWH: “I will return to Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of YHWH of Hosts, the Mountain of Holiness.”

4Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Again old men and old women will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand from an abundance of days. 5And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

6Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “If it is marvelous† in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, will it also in My eyes be marvelous?” An utterance of YHWH of Hosts.

7Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the sunrise and from the land of the going in of the sun. 8And I will bring them in, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will be unto Me as a people, and I will be unto them God, in truth and in righteousness.”

9Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Let your⁺ hands be strong, hearing in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets who spoke in the day that the house of YHWH of Hosts was founded to build the temple. 10For before those days there was not a wage for man or a wage for beast. There was not one going forth and one coming in, nor peace from the enemy, and I sent all mankind—each man—against his neighbor. 11And now not as in the former days am I to the remnant of this people,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

12“Because of the sowing of peace, the vine will give her fruit, and the ground will give her increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and to the remnant of this people I will give as an inheritance all these things. 13And it will come to pass that as you⁺ were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you⁺, and you⁺ will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your⁺ hands be strong.”

14For thus says YHWH of Hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster upon you⁺ when your⁺ fathers provoked Me to wrath, says YHWH of Hosts, and I would not relent, 15so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear! 16These are the things that you⁺ will do: Speak the truth, every man with his neighbor; in truth and judgment of peace render judgment in your⁺ gates; 17and each man, you⁺ shall not devise evil against a neighbor in your⁺ heart, and an oath of deception you⁺ shall not love, for all these are that which I hate,” a declaration of YHWH.

18And the word of YHWH of Hosts came to me, saying: 19“Thus says YHWH of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, will be for the house of Judah as joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. And love the truth and the peace.”

20Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Yet that peoples will come, and dwellers of many cities. 21And will go those dwelling in one to one, saying, ‘Let us go at once to ask for favor before the face of YHWH, and to seek YHWH of Hosts; I will go—even I.’ 22And will come many peoples and strong nations to seek YHWH of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to ask for favor before the face of YHWH.”

23Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “In those days, will take hold ten men from every language of the nations, and they will take hold on the sleeve of a man, a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you⁺, for we have heard that God is with you⁺.’”