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1 In the latter days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the foremost of the mountains and raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will go and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.”
For instruction will go out from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 He will judge between many peoples and settle disputes for mighty nations far away.
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not raise sword against nation, and they will no longer learn war.
4 Each will sit under his vine and under his fig tree, with no one to make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
5 For all the peoples walk, each in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
6 “On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the one who limps and assemble the outcast and the one I have afflicted.
7 I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a mighty nation.
The LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion from now on and forever.
8 And you, tower of the flock, hill of daughter Zion—to you it will come: the former dominion will come, the kingdom for daughter Jerusalem.”
9 Now why do you cry out so loudly?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished, that pain has seized you like a woman in labor?
10 Writhe and bring forth, daughter Zion, like a woman in labor.
For now you will leave the city and dwell in the open country;
you will go as far as Babylon.
There you will be rescued;
there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now many nations have gathered against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand his counsel, for he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 “Rise and thresh, daughter Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hooves bronze.
You will crush many peoples, and I will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.”