Dual PanelGod's people preserved
1IN days to come the mountain of the LORD's house will be established higher than all other mountains, towering above other hills. Peoples will stream towards it;
2many nations will go, saying, “Let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of Jacob's God, that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths.” For instruction issues from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3He will be judge between many peoples and arbiter among great and distant nations. They will hammer their swords into mattocks and their spears into pruning-knives. Nation will not take up sword against nation; they will never again be trained for war.
4Each man will sit under his own vine or his own fig tree, with none to cause alarm. The LORD of Hosts himself has spoken.
5Other peoples may be loyal to their own deities, but our loyalty will be for ever to the LORD our God.
6On that day, says the LORD, I shall gather those who are lost; I shall assemble the dispersed and those I have afflicted.
7I shall restore the lost as a remnant and turn the outcasts into a mighty nation. The LORD will be their king on Mount Zion for ever from that time forward.
8And you, watch-tower of the flock, hill of Zion, the promises made to you will be fulfilled, and your former sovereignty will come again, the dominion of Jerusalem.
9Why are you now crying out in distress? Have you no king, no counsellor left, that you are seized with writhing like a woman in labour?
10Zion, writhe and shout like a woman in childbirth, for now you must leave the city and camp in the open country. You must go to Babylon; there you will be saved; there the LORD will deliver you from your enemies.
11But now many nations are massed against you; they say, “Let her suffer outrage; let us gloat over Zion.”
12They do not know the LORD's thoughts or understand his purpose; for he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.
13Start your threshing, you people of Zion; for I shall make your horns iron, your hoofs bronze, and you will crush many peoples. You are to devote their ill-gotten gain to the LORD, their wealth to the LORD of all the earth.