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¹ In the future, the mountain
with the Lord's temple
    will be the highest of all.
It will reach above the hills,
and every nation
    will rush to it.
² People of many nations
    will come and say,
"Let's go up to the mountain
of the Lord God of Jacob
    and worship in his temple."

The Lord will teach us his Law
from Jerusalem,
    and we will obey him.
³ He will settle arguments
between distant
    and powerful nations.
They will pound their swords
and their spears
    into rakes and shovels;
they will never again make war
    or attack one another.
⁴ Everyone will find rest
beneath their own fig trees
    or grape vines,
and they will live in peace.
This is a solemn promise
    of the Lord All-Powerful.

⁵ Others may follow their gods,
but we will always follow
    the Lord our God.

⁶ The Lord said:
At that time
    I will gather my people—
the lame and the outcasts,
and all into whose lives
    I have brought sorrow.
⁷ Then the lame and the outcasts
will belong to my people
    and become a strong nation.
I, the Lord, will rule them
    from Mount Zion forever.
⁸ Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
guardian of my people,
    you will rule again.

⁹ Jerusalem, why are you crying?
Don't you have a king?
    Have your advisors gone?
Are you suffering
    like a woman in childbirth?
¹⁰ Keep on groaning with pain,
    you people of Jerusalem!
If you escape from your city
    to the countryside,
you will still be taken
    as prisoners to Babylonia.
But later I will rescue you
    from your enemies.

¹¹ Zion, because of your sins
you are surrounded
    by many nations who say,
"We can hardly wait
    to see you disgraced."^[a]
12 But they don't know
    that I, the Lord,
have gathered them here
    to grind them like grain.
¹³ Smash them to pieces, Zion!
I'll let you be like a bull
    with iron horns
    and bronze hoofs.
Crush those nations
and bring their wealth to me,
    the Lord of the earth.