The Mountain of the Lord

¹Then it will be that in the latter days,

the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established

as head of the mountains,

and will be lifted up above the hills;

and people will stream to it.

²And many nations will come and say,

“Come, that we might go up to the mountain of the Lord ,

and to the house of the God of Jacob,

that He might teach us His ways,

and that we might walk in His paths.”

For from Zion will go forth the law,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³Then He will judge between many peoples

and mediate for mighty nations far and wide;

they will beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not take up sword against nation,

and they will no longer train for war.

⁴Then each man will sit under his vine

and under his fig tree,

and no one will make them afraid;

for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

⁵For all the peoples walk,

each in the name of its god,

but we will walk in the name of the Lord

our God forever and ever.

The Promise of Restoration

⁶In that day, declares the Lord ,

I will assemble the lame

and gather the banished

and those whom I have afflicted;

⁷and I will make the lame into a remnant,

and the banished into a mighty nation;

and the Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion

from this time forth and forevermore.

⁸As for you, watchtower of the flock,

citadel of the daughter of Zion,

to you it will come, the former dominion will come,

kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹Now why do you cry loudly?

Have you no king?

Has your counselor perished,

that agony has seized you like the woman in labor?

¹⁰Writhe and bring forth, daughter of Zion,

like the woman in labor,

because now you will go forth from the city

and reside in the field,

and you will come to Babylon.

There you will be rescued;

there the Lord will redeem you

from the hand of your enemies.

¹¹But now many nations

are gathered against you, saying,

“May she be defiled,

and may our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

¹²But they do not know

the thoughts of the Lord ,

and they do not understand His plan,

that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

¹³Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,

for I will make your horn iron;

your hoofs I will make bronze,

and you will shatter many peoples.

I will devote their pillage to the Lord ,

their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.