Micah 6:2

6:2 Hear the Lord’s accusation, you mountains,

you enduring foundations of the earth!

For the Lord has a case against his people;

he has a dispute with Israel! ¹ 

Micah 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 

[6:2]  ¹ tn This verse briefly interrupts the Lord’s statement (see vv. 1, 3) as the prophet summons the mountains as witnesses. Because of this v. 2 has been placed in parentheses in the translation.

[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.