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Micah 4

1 Of the kingdom of Christ, and felicitie of his Church.
1.But in the alast days it shal come to pass, that the mountain of the House of the Lord shal be prepared in the top of the mountains, and it shalbe exalted above the bhills, and people shal flow unto it.
2.Yea, many nations shal come & say, Come, & let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord, and to the House of the God of Jaakób, & he will cteach us his ways, & we will walk in his paths: for the Law shal go forth of Zión, & the word of the Lord from Jerusalém.
3.And he shal judge among many people, and drebuke mighty nations a far off, and they shal break their swords into mattocks, and their spears into esieths: nation shal not lift up a sword against nation, neither shal they flearn to fight any more.
4.But they shal sit every man under his vine, and under his fig tree, and none shal make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hostes hath spoken it.
5.For all people will walk gevery one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the Name of the Lord our God, for ever and ever.
6.At the same day, saith the Lord, will I gather her that halteth, and I will gather her that is cast out, and her that I have afflicted.
7.And I will make her that halted, ha remnant, and her that was cast far off, a mighty nation: and the Lord shal reign over them in Mount Zión, from hence forth even for ever.
8.And thou, ô itower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter Zión, unto thee shal it come, even kthe first dominion, and kingdom shal come to the daughter Jerusalém.
9.Now why doest thou cry out with lamentation? is lthere no King in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for sorrow hath taken thee, as a woman in travail.
10.Sorrow and mourn, ô daughter Zión, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth of the city, and dwell in the field, and shalt go into Babél, but there shalt thou be delivered: there the Lord shal redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11.Now also many nations are gathered against thee, saying, Zión shalbe condemned and our eye shal look upon Zión.
12.But they mknow not the thoughts of the Lord: they understand not his counsel, for he shal gather them as the sheaves in the barn.
13.Arise, and thresh, nô daughter Zión: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thine hooves brass, and thou shalt break in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their riches unto the Lord, and their substance unto the ruler of the whole world.

Notes

1-a.
When Christ shall come, and the Temple shall be destroyed.
1-b.
Read, Is. 2.2.
2-c.
He shows that there is no true Church but where as the people are taught by God’s pure word.
3-d.
By his corrections and threatenings he will bring the people into subjection which are in the uttermost corners of the world.
3-e.
They shall abstain from all evil doing, and exercise themselves in godliness and in well doing to others.
3-f.
Read, Is. 2.4.
5-g.
He shows that the people of God ought to remain constant in their religion, albeit all the world should give themselves to their superstition and idolatry.
7-h.
I will cause that Israel, which is now as one lame and halting, and so almost destroyed, shall live again and grow into a great people.
8-i.
Meaning Jerusalem where the Lord’s flock was gathered.
8-k.
The flourishing state of the kingdom, as it was under David and Solomon, which thing was accomplished to the Church by the coming of Christ.
9-l.
In the mean season he shows that they should indure great troubles & tentations when they saw themselves neither to have King nor counsel.
12-m.
He shows that the faithful ought not to measure God’s judgements by the brags and threatenings of the wicked, but thereby are admonished to lift up their heads to God to call for deliverance.
13-n.
God gives his Church this victory so oft as he overcomes their enemies: but the accomplishment hereof shall be at the last coming of Christ.