Micah 4:12 {11}
Good News Translation
But these nations do not know what is in the LORD's mind. They do not realize that they have been gathered together to be punished in the same way that grain is brought in to be threshed.

New Revised Standard Version
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

Contemporary English Version
But they don't know that I, the LORD, have gathered them here to grind them like grain.

New American Bible
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor understand his plan: He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.

they know.

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.

Romans 11:33,34 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! . . .

for he shall.

Isaiah 21:10 O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.

Joel 3:12,13 Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about. . . .

Zechariah 14:1-3 Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee. . . .

Luke 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand: and he will purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his barn: but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Revelation 14:14-20 And I saw: and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one sitting like to the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold and in his hand a sharp sickle. . . .

Context
The Restoration of Zion
11Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy enemies. 12And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.13But 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.…
Cross References
Psalm 147:19
Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.

Psalm 147:20
He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Isaiah 10:7
But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.

Jeremiah 51:20
Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:

Joel 3:2
I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.

Micah 4:11
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