Mikha 7:13

7:13 The earth will become desolate ¹ 

because of what its inhabitants have done. ² 

Mikha 7:2

7:2 Faithful men have disappeared ³  from the land;

there are no godly men left. ⁴ 

They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; ⁵ 

they hunt their own brother with a net. ⁶ 

Mikha 4:13

4:13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!

For I will give you iron horns; ⁷ 

I will give you bronze hooves,

and you will crush many nations.” ⁸ 

You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,

and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler ⁹  of the whole earth. ¹⁰ 

[7:13]  ¹ tn Or “will be ruined.”

[7:13]  ² tn Heb “on account of its inhabitants, because of the fruit of their deeds.”

[7:2]  ³ tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”

[7:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”

[7:2]  ⁶ sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.

[4:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will make your horn iron.”

[4:13]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Or “the Lord” (so many English versions); Heb “the master.”

[4:13]  ¹⁰ 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.

[4:13]  sn In vv. 11-13 the prophet jumps from the present crisis (which will result in exile, v. 10) to a time beyond the restoration of the exiles when God will protect his city from invaders. The Lord’s victory over the Assyrian armies in 701 b.c. foreshadowed this.