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11 [a]And now many nations are gathered against you!
    They say, “Let her be profaned,
    let our eyes see Zion’s downfall!”
12 But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord,
    nor understand his plan:
He has gathered them
    like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter Zion;
    your horn I will make iron
And your hoofs I will make bronze,
    that you may crush many peoples;
You shall devote their spoils to the Lord,[b]
    their riches to the Lord of the whole earth.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:11–13 The nations who have ridiculed Zion (v. 11) will be threshed like grain (v. 13).
  2. 4:13 Devote their spoils to the Lord: the fulfillment of the ancient ordinance of the holy war in which all plunder taken in the war was “put under the ban,” i.e., belonged to the Lord.