The Mountain of the LORD’s Temple
1 But in the last days,
it will happen that the mountain of the LORD’s temple
will be established on high among the mountains,
and it will be exalted above the hills,
and peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will go and say,
“Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD,
and to the house of the God of Jacob,
and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For the law will go out of Zion
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem,
3 and he will judge between many peoples
and will decide concerning strong and far off nations.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer take up sword against nation,
nor will they study war any more.
4 But they will sit, every man under his vine and fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid.
For the mouth of LORD of Hosts has spoken.
5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods,
but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
The Restoration of Zion
6 “On that day,” declares the LORD,
“I will assemble that which is lame,
and I will gather that which has been driven away
and that which I have afflicted,
7 and I will make that which was lame
into a remnant of a nation
and that which was cast far off
into a strong nation,
and the LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion
from then on, forever.
8 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you it will come,
yes, your former dominion will be restored.
The kingdom will come to the daughter of Jerusalem.”
9 Now why do you cry out aloud?
Do you have no king?
Has your counselor perished,
that pains have taken hold of you like a woman in labor?
10 Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you will leave the city
and will dwell in the field
and will come to Babylon.
There you will be rescued.
There the LORD will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now many nations have assembled against you,
that say, “Let her be defiled,
and let us watch and gloat over Zion.”
12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD,
nor do they understand his counsel,
for he has gathered them
like sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs bronze,
and you will crush many peoples,
and you will devote their plunder to the LORD,
and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.