1. In days to comethe mount of the Lord’s houseShall be established as the highest mountain;it shall be raised above the hills,And peoples shall stream to it:
2. Many nations shall come, and say,“Come, let us climb the Lord’s mountain,to the house of the God of Jacob,That he may instruct us in his ways,that we may walk in his paths.”For from Zion shall go forth instruction,and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3. He shall judge between many peoplesand set terms for strong and distant nations;They shall beat their swords into plowshares,and their spears into pruning hooks;One nation shall not raise the sword against another,nor shall they train for war again.
4. They shall all sit under their own vines,under their own fig trees, undisturbed;for the Lord of hosts has spoken.
5. Though all the peoples walk,each in the name of its god,We will walk in the name of the Lord,our God, forever and ever.
6. On that day—oracle of the Lord—I will gather the lame,And I will assemble the outcasts,and those whom I have afflicted.
7. I will make of the lame a remnant,and of the weak a strong nation;The Lord shall be king over them on Mount Zion,from now on and forever.
8. And you, O tower of the flock,hill of daughter Zion!To you it shall come:the former dominion shall be restored,the reign of daughter Jerusalem.
9. Now why do you cry out so?Are you without a king?Or has your adviser perished,That you are seized with painslike a woman in labor?