Holy Scripture

Micah 4:11

A church father on this verse
“Now many nations are assembled against you. That is, in the meantime a mix of many different nations invades you under the command of Gog. Again there shall be profanation in Zion, and the eye shall gaze upon it, which means the holy places of Zion will be violated and greatly despised by those who did not know that t…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON MICAH

Source: Septuagint

Original

11And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.

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9And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

10Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

— Micah 4:11 —

12But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.

13Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thy horns iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.

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