1 In the last days it will come about that the mountain of the house of the LORD will stand firm at the top of the mountains and be raised above the hills, and peoples will flow to it.
2 Nations in great number will come and say, "Come, let us climb the LORD's mountain, to the house of Jacob's God, so that he may instruct us in his ways and we may walk in his paths." For from Zion the law will go out, and from Jerusalem the word of the LORD.
3 He will judge between many peoples and settle disputes for strong nations even far away. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up sword against nation, and they will no longer learn war.
4 Each will dwell beneath his own vine and his own fig tree, and nobody will frighten him; the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
5 Though every people walks in the name of its own god, we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
6 On that day, declares the LORD, I will collect the limping, bring together the scattered, and those I have brought harm on.
7 I will turn the limping into a remnant and the driven-off into a mighty nation, and the LORD will be king over them on Mount Zion from now on and for evermore.
8 As for you, Migdal-eder, tower of the flock, stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come: the former rule will return, royal power for the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Why, then, are you shouting so loudly now? Have you no king? Is your counselor gone, that pangs grip you like a woman giving birth?
10 Writhe and strain, daughter of Zion, like a woman bearing a child, for now you must leave the city and camp in the open field; you will go as far as Babylon. There you will be delivered; there the LORD will buy you back out of your enemies' hand.
11 But now many nations have gathered against you; they say, "Let her be profaned! Let our eyes feast on Zion!"
12 Yet they have no knowledge of what the LORD intends, no grasp of his purpose: he has gathered them like cut grain onto the threshing floor.
13 Up and thresh, daughter of Zion! I will give you a horn of iron and hooves of bronze, and you will crush many peoples; and I will devote their ill-gotten gain to the LORD, their riches to the Lord of all the earth.