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For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³And He shall judge between many peoples,

And shall decide concerning mighty nations afar off;

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into priming-hooks,

Nation shall not Hit up sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war any more.

⁴But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree;

And none shall make them afraid,

For the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

 

⁵For let all the peoples walk each one in the name of its god,

But we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

 

⁶In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth,

And I will gather her that is driven away,

And her that I have afflicted;

⁷And I will make her that halted a remnant,

And her that was cast far off a mighty nation;

And the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from thenceforth even for ever.

 

⁸And thou, Migdal-eder, the hill of the daughter of Zion,

Unto thee shall it come;

Yea, the former dominion shall come,

The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹Now why dost thou cry out aloud?

Is there no King in thee,

Is thy Counsellor perished,

That pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

¹⁰Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,

Like a woman in travail;

For now shalt thou go forth out of the city,

And shalt dwell in the field,

And shalt come even unto Babylon;

There shalt thou be rescued;

There shall the Lord redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

 

¹¹And now many nations are assembled against thee,

That say: 'Let her be defiled, and let our eye gaze upon Zion.'

¹²But they know not the thoughts of the Lord,

Neither understand they His counsel;

For He hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

¹³Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;

For I will make thy horn iron,

And I will make thy hoofs brass;

And thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples,

And thou shalt devote their gain unto the Lord,

And their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

 

¹⁴Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops,

They have laid siege against us;

They smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

 

5But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah,

Which art little to be among the thousands of Judah,

Out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel;

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