Come, Follow Me · Week 49 · November 30–December 6

Micah; Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah

This Week's Reading

This week's Come, Follow Me reading focuses on the Minor Prophets, specifically Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. These books collectively teach us that God demands justice, mercy, and humility from His people while promising restoration to those who trust in Him. The scriptures warn against corrupt leaders who pervert judgment for profit and promise a future where the Lord Himself is the King in the midst of His people. Ultimately, these prophets point us away from empty rituals and toward a sincere heart that lives by faith and walks humbly with God.

Key Passages

Micah 3:9–12 This passage warns leaders who pervert justice for reward, teaching that building Zion with blood leads to its destruction rather than blessing.
Nahum 1:2–8 These verses reveal that while God is slow to anger and a strong hold in trouble, He will take vengeance on His enemies with overwhelming power.
Habakkuk 2:4–6 Here we learn the vital principle that the just shall live by his faith, contrasting it with the insatiable greed of those who increase what is not theirs.
Zephaniah 3:14–20 This section offers a glorious promise of restoration, declaring that the Lord will rejoice over us with joy and gather us back to praise.
Micah 6:8–10 These verses define the core requirements of God: to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our Creator.

Questions to Ponder

How does the warning in Micah 3 about leaders seeking reward for judgment apply to our own lives or communities today?
In what ways can we distinguish between trusting in God's protection versus relying on our own resources when facing trouble?
What does it mean practically to "live by faith" as Habakkuk teaches, especially when we see wickedness around us?
How can we actively participate in the joy and restoration promised in Zephaniah within our families or wards?

A Thought to Take Home

These ancient prophets remind us that true righteousness is found not in grand sacrifices or empty words, but in a heart that does justly and loves mercy. Even when we feel overwhelmed by the wickedness of the world, we can find comfort in knowing that the Lord is good and remains our strong hold in the day of trouble. As we strive to walk humbly with God, He promises to gather us back, undo all that afflicts us, and make us a name of praise among all people.

Further study Micah 6:8, Habakkuk 2:4, Zephaniah 3:17

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Key passages

Micah 3:9–12

⁹Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. ¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. ¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Nahum 1:2–8

²God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. ³The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. ⁴He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. ⁵The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. ⁶Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. ⁷The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. ⁸But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Habakkuk 2:4–6

⁴Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. ⁵Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: ⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Zephaniah 3:14–20

¹⁴Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. ¹⁶In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. ¹⁷The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. ¹⁸I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. ¹⁹Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. ²⁰At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

Micah 6:8–10

⁸He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ⁹The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. ¹⁰Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?