God’s coming kingdom will rule the whole earth
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📚But in the last days it will come about,
that the mountain of the house
of the LORD will be established
on the top of the mountains,
and it will be exalted above
the hills, and peoples
will flow to it.
2 📚And many nations will come,
and say, “Come, and let us go up
to the mountain of the LORD
and to the house of
the God of Jacob,
and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths”.
For the law will go out of Zion,
and the word of the LORD
from Jerusalem.
3 📚And he will judge among
many peoples,
and rebuke strong nations far off,
and they will beat their swords
into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword
against nation,
nor will they learn war any more.
4 📚But each man will sit under his vine 📖
and his fig tree,
and no one will make them
afraid 📖;
for the mouth of the LORD of hosts 📖
has spoken.
5 📚For each one of all the peoples may
walk in the name of 📖 his god,
but we will walk in the name
of the LORD our God forever
and ever.
6 📚“In that day 📖”, says the LORD,
“I will assemble the lame 📖,
and I will gather the exile,
and those whom I have afflicted 📖,
7 📚And I will make the lame a remnant,
and the exile a strong nation,
and the LORD will reign over them
in mount Zion from now on,
and forever 📖.
8 📚And you, O tower of the flock 📖,
the stronghold of the daughter 📖
of Zion,
the former dominion will come
to you again 📖,
the kingdom will come
to the daughter of Jerusalem”.
Suffering and exile will end, well-being return
9 📚Now why do you cry aloud?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counsellor perished?
For pains have seized you
like those of a woman
in labour.
10 📚Writhe and labour to give birth,
O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labour.
For now you will go out of the city,
and you will live in the field,
and you will go to Babylon 📖.
There you will be rescued 📖,
there the LORD will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
11 📚But now many nations have gathered
against you. They say,
“Let her be defiled, and let
our eye look on Zion”.
12 📚But they do not know the thoughts
of the LORD, nor do
they understand his purpose 📖.
For he gathers them like sheaves
to the threshing floor.
13 📚“Arise and thresh, O daughter
of Zion, for I will make your horn
like iron,
and I will make your hooves
like bronze,
and you will crush many peoples.
And I will consecrate their ill-gotten
gain to the LORD,
and their wealth to the Lord
of the whole earth”.