He declares His word to Jacob, His decrees and His rulings to Israel.
Micah 4:12 - Tree of Life Version But they do not know Adonai’s thoughts, nor understand His plan. For He has gathered them like grain to a threshing floor. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither do they understand His plan, for He shall gather them as the sheaves to the threshing floor. American Standard Version (1901) But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor. Common English Bible But they don’t know the plans of the LORD; they can’t understand his scheme, namely, that he will bring them like grain to the threshing floor! Catholic Public Domain Version But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and they have not understood his counsel. For he has gathered them together like hay on a threshing floor. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: because he hath gathered them together as the hay of the floor. |
He declares His word to Jacob, His decrees and His rulings to Israel.
He has not done so with any other nation. They have not known His judgments. Halleluyah!
Yet that is not what Assyria intends, nor is that what he is thinking about. Rather his heart is to destroy, and to cut down nations—only a few!
O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, what I heard from Adonai Tzva’ot, God of Israel, I have declared to you.
It will be like a dream, a night vision: the multitude of all the nations warring against Ariel, yes, all warring against her, the ramparts around her and her besiegers.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
For I know the plans that I have in mind for you,” declares Adonai, “plans for shalom and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope.
“You are My club, a war weapon— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms.
For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at treading time. A little longer, and the time of harvest for her will come.”
“Also on the male and the female servants will I pour out My spirit in those days.
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and gather the wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”