Dual Panel1In the future <03117> <0319> the Lord’s <03068> Temple <01004> Mount <02022> will be <01961> the most important <07218> mountain <02022> of all; it <01931> will be more prominent <05375> than other hills <01389>. People <05971> will stream <05102> to <05921> it.
2Many <07227> nations <01471> will come <01980>, saying <0559>, “Come on <01980>! Let’s go up <05927> to <0413> the Lord’s <03069> mountain <02022>, to <0413> the temple <01004> of Jacob’s <03290> God <0430>, so he can teach <03384> us his commands <01870> and we can live <01980> by his laws <0734>.” For <03588> Zion <06726> will be the source of instruction <08451>; the Lord’s <03069> teachings <01697> will proceed <03318> from Jerusalem <03389>.
3He will arbitrate <08199> between <0996> many <07227> peoples <05971> and settle disputes <03198> between <05704> many <06099> distant <07350> nations <01471>. They will beat <03807> their swords <02719> into plowshares <0855>, and their spears <02595> into pruning hooks <04211>. Nations <01471> will not <03808> use <05375> weapons <02719> against <0413> other nations <01471>, and they will no <03808> longer <05750> train <03925> for war <04421>.
4Each <0376> will sit <03427> under <08478> his own grapevine <01612> or under <08478> his own fig tree <08384> without <0369> any fear <02729>. The Lord <03068> who commands armies <06635> has decreed <01696> it.
5Though <03588> all <03605> the nations <05971> follow <01980> their respective gods <0430> <08034>, we <0587> will follow <08034> <01980> the Lord <03068> our God <0430> forever <05703> <05769>.
6“In that day <03117>,” says <05002> the Lord <03068>, “I will gather <0622> the lame <06760>, and assemble <06908> the outcasts <05080> whom <0834> I injured <07489>.
7I will transform <07760> the lame <06760> into the nucleus <07611> of a new nation, and those far off <01972> into a mighty <06099> nation <01471>. The Lord <03068> will reign <04427> over them on <05921> Mount <02022> Zion <06726>, from <05704> that day forward <06258> and forevermore <05769>.”
8As for you <0859>, watchtower <04026> for the flock <05739>, fortress <06076> of Daughter <01323> Zion <06726>– your former <07223> dominion <04475> will be restored <0935>, the sovereignty <04467> that belongs to Daughter <01323> Jerusalem <03389>.
9Jerusalem, why <04100> are you now <06258> shouting <07321> so loudly <07452>? Has your king <04428> disappeared <0369>? Has your wise leader <03289> been destroyed <06>? Is this why <03588> pain <02427> grips <02388> you as if you were a woman in labor <03205>?
10Twist <02342> and strain <01518>, Daughter <01323> Zion <06726>, as if you were in labor <03205>! For <03588> you will leave <03318> the city <07151> and live <07931> in the open field <07704>. You will go <0935> to <05704> Babylon <0894>, but there <08033> you will be rescued <05337>. There <08033> the Lord <03068> will deliver <01350> you from the power <03709> of your enemies <0341>.
11Many <07227> nations <01471> have now <06258> assembled <0622> against <05921> you. They say <0559>, “Jerusalem must be desecrated <02610>, so we can gloat <02372> over Zion <06726>!”
12But they <01992> do not <03808> know <03045> what the Lord <03068> is planning <04284>; they do not <03808> understand <0995> his strategy <06098>. He has gathered <06908> them like stalks of grain <05995> to be threshed at the threshing floor <01637>.
13“Get up <06965> and thresh <01758>, Daughter <01323> Zion <06726>! For <03588> I will give you iron <01270> horns <07161>; I will give <07760> you bronze <05154> hooves <06541>, and you will crush <01854> many <07227> nations <05971>.” You will devote <02763> to the Lord <03068> the spoils <01214> you take from them, and dedicate their wealth <02428> to the sovereign Ruler <0113> of the whole <03605> earth <0776>.