 1 In the last days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established in the top of the mountains and it will be lifted up above the hills and people will flow to it. 2 Many nations will come and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us of His ways and we will walk in His paths. For the law will go forth out of Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 3 He will judge between many people and will decide for strong nations far away. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up a sword against nation and they will not still learn war. 4 But each one will sit under his vine and under his fig tree and there will be no trembling. For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken, 5 All people will walk in the name of their god and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. 6 In that day, says the Lord, I will gather the lame and the banished and those I have afflicted. 7 I will make the lame a remnant and those who were cast off a strong nation and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from now on, even forever. 8 You, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will happen. And rulers, the chief ones, will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. 9 Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like one giving birth. 10 Be in pain and deliver, daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall live in the field. And you shall go to Babylon. There you will be snatched back. There the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion. 12 But they do not know the plans of the Lord, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the floor. 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion. For I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze. And you will crush many people. And I will give their gain to the Lord, and their wealth to the Lord of the all the earth.
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