Micah 4:13 “Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron…”

Micah 4:13

Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

World English Bible

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze. You will beat in pieces many peoples. I will devote their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

American Standard Version

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Geneva Bible 1599

Arise, and thresh, O daughter Zion: for I will make thine horne yron, and I will make thine hooues brasse, and thou shalt breake in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their riches vnto the Lord, and their substance vnto the ruler of the whole worlde.

Darby Translation

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

Young's Literal Translation

Arise, and thresh, O daughter of Zion, For thy horn I make iron, And thy hoofs I make brass, And thou hast beaten small many peoples, And I have devoted to Jehovah their gain, And their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth!

Bible in Basic English

Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“and thresh”

Jeremiah 51:33 Isaiah 41:15 Isaiah 41:16

Jeremiah 51:33 · BSB

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

Isaiah 41:15 · BSB

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

Isaiah 41:16 · BSB

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

“hoofs”

Deuteronomy 33:25 Isaiah 5:28

Deuteronomy 33:25 · BSB

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

Isaiah 5:28 · BSB

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

“thou shalt”

Daniel 2:44 Micah 5:8–15 Zechariah 9:13–15 Revelation 2:26 Revelation 2:27

Daniel 2:44 · BSB

In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand…

Micah 5:8–15 · BSB

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with…

Zechariah 9:13–15 · BSB

For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

Revelation 2:26 · BSB

And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

Revelation 2:27 · BSB

He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.

“I will consecrate”

Isaiah 18:7 Isaiah 23:18 Romans 15:25–28 1 Corinthians 16:2 Revelation 21:24–26 Joshua 6:19

Isaiah 18:7 · BSB

At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the p…

Isaiah 23:18 · BSB

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

Romans 15:25–28 · BSB

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.

1 Corinthians 16:2 · BSB

On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.

Revelation 21:24–26 · BSB

By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

Joshua 6:19 · BSB

For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”

“the Lord of”

Zechariah 6:5 Zechariah 4:14

Zechariah 6:5 · BSB

And the angel told me, “These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth from their station before the Lord of all the earth.

Zechariah 4:14 · BSB

So he said, “These are the two anointed ones who are standing beside the Lord of all the earth.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Read Micah 4