Micah 4:5 (LSB)

Passage

Though all the peoples walk Each in the name of his god, As for us, we will walk In the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

Nearby Context

Micah 4:3 And He will judge between many peoples And will render decisions for mighty, distant nations. And they will hammer their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

Micah 4:4 And each of them will sit under his vine And under his fig tree, With no one to make them tremble, For the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.

Micah 4:5 Though all the peoples walk Each in the name of his god, As for us, we will walk In the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

Micah 4:6 “In that day,” declares Yahweh, “I will assemble the lame And gather the banished, Even those upon whom I have brought calamity.

Micah 4:7 I will make the lame a remnant And the outcasts a mighty nation, And Yahweh will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on and forever.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "though", "peoples", "walk", "each", "name", and "yahweh". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "though" and "peoples", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "And each of them will sit under..." into verse 6's "In that day declares Yahweh I will...", so "though" and "peoples" belong inside that flow. In Micah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "though" and "peoples" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.