This haftorah is from the prophet Micah. He speaks of our tribe being like torrents of rain and like nature it does not depend on man’s actions. An image of our survival despite ages of enemies. And we will be like the young lion in the forests that tears through a flock in its way. Unstoppable. Yet in the future you will not need weapons like chariots. Hashem will destroy them and our dependence on them and fortified cities with walls. These too will come down. And so will our dependence on superstitions and sorceries and false gods and false equivalences. They will all be wiped away. (There is mention of the hands of the deceivers being chopped off.) The mountains and the hills will attest to Hashem’s presence and power. The reading ends with one of the most honored and quoted lines from all the prophets: “It has been told thee what is good, and what the Lord doth require of you – to do justly, to love loving-kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.”