The Law Will Go Forth from Zion
Now it will be that in the alast days
The bmountain of the house of Yahweh
Will be established as the head of the mountains,
And will be lifted up above the hills,
And the cpeoples will stream to it.
2 aAnd many nations will come and say,
“bCome and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
That cHe may instruct us from His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For dfrom Zion will go forth the law,
And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
3 And He will ajudge between many peoples
And will render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
And they will hammer their swords binto plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.
4 And each of them will asit under his vine
And under his fig tree,
With bno one to make them tremble,
For the cmouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.
5 Though all the peoples walk
Each in the aname of his god,
As for us, bwe will walk
In the name of cYahweh our God forever and ever.
6 “In that day,” declares Yahweh,
“I will assemble the alame
And bgather the banished,
Even those upon whom I have brought calamity.
7 I will make the lame a aremnant
And the outcasts a mighty nation,
And bYahweh will reign over them in Mount Zion
From now on and forever.
8 And as for you, atower of the flock,
Hill of the daughter of Zion,
To you it will come—
Even the bformer dominion will come,
The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 “Now, why do you amake a loud shout?
Is there no king among you,
Or has your bcounselor perished,
That writhing has taken hold of you like a woman in childbirth?
10 aWrithe and labor to give birth,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth;
For now you will bgo out of the city,
Dwell in the field,
And go to Babylon.
cThere you will be delivered;
dThere Yahweh will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
11 But now amany nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes behold Zion in triumph.’
12 But they do not aknow the thoughts of Yahweh,
And they do not understand His counsel;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 Arise and athresh, daughter of Zion,
For your horn I will make iron,
And your hoofs I will make bronze,
That you may bpulverize many peoples,
That you may cdevote to Yahweh their greedy gain unto destruction
And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.