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.

“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.
³ Then 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.
⁴ Then 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.
⁵ For all the peoples may walk,
    each in the name of his God,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord
    our God forever and ever.

I will assemble the lame
    and gather the banished
    and those whom I have afflicted;
⁷ and 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.
⁸ As 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.

⁹ Now why do you cry loudly?
    Have you no king?
Has your counselor perished,
    that agony has seized you like the woman in labor?
¹⁰ Writhe 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.

¹¹ But now many nations
    are gathered against you, saying,
“May she be defiled,
    and may our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
¹² But 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.
¹³ Arise 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.