Discovery BoxMicah 4:11-12 
Context4:11 Many nations have now assembled against you.
They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, 1
so we can gloat over Zion!” 2
4:12 But they do not know what the Lord is planning;
they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed 3 at the threshing floor.
1 tn Heb “let her be desecrated.” the referent (Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “and let our eye look upon Zion.”
3 tn The words “to be threshed” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the
