4:1 In the future the
it will be more prominent than other hills.
People will stream to it.
"Come on! Let's go up to the
to the temple of Jacob's God,
so he can teach us his commands
and we can live by his laws."
For Zion will be the source of instruction;
the
and settle disputes between many distant nations.
They will beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nations will not use weapons against other nations,
and they will no longer train for war.
or under his own fig tree without any fear.
The
we will follow the
and assemble the outcasts whom I injured.
and those far off into a mighty nation.
The
from that day forward and forevermore."
fortress of Daughter Zion -
your former dominion will be restored,
the sovereignty that belongs to Daughter Jerusalem.
Has your king disappeared?
Has your wise leader been destroyed?
Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?
For you will leave the city
and live in the open field.
You will go to Babylon,
but there you will be rescued.
There the
from the power of your enemies.
They say, "Jerusalem must be desecrated,
so we can gloat over Zion!"
they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.
For I will give you iron horns;
I will give you bronze hooves,
and you will crush many nations."
You will devote to the
and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler of the whole earth.
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