4 In the last days
    the mountain on which the Lord’s Temple stands
    will become the most important of all mountains.
It will be raised above the hills.
    People from other nations will come streaming to it.
² Many nations will come and say,
    “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord.
    Let us go to the Temple of the God of Jacob!
Then God will teach us his ways.
    And we will obey his teachings.”
The Lord’s teachings will go out from Jerusalem.
    The word of the Lord will go out from Jerusalem.
³ The Lord will settle arguments among many nations.
    He will decide between strong nations that are far away.
Then the nations will make their swords into plows.
    They will make their spears into hooks for trimming trees.
Nations will no longer fight other nations.
    They will not even train for war anymore.
⁴ Everyone will sit under his own vine and fig tree.
    No one will make him afraid.
    This is because the Lord of heaven’s armies has said it.
⁵ All other nations follow their own gods.
    But we will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.

⁹ Now, why do you cry so loudly?
    Is your king gone?
Have you lost your leader?
    You are in pain like a woman trying to give birth.
¹⁰ People of Jerusalem, be in pain.
    Be like a woman trying to give birth.
Now you must leave the city
    and live in the field.
You will go to Babylon.
    But you will be saved from that place.
The Lord will go there
    and take you back from your enemies.