1 En aan die einde van die dae sal die berg van die huis van die HERE vasstaan op die top van die berge en verhewe wees bo die heuwels, en die volke sal daarheen toestroom.

2 En baie nasies sal heengaan en sê: Kom, laat ons optrek na die berg van die HERE en na die huis van die God van Jakob, dat Hy ons in sy weë kan leer en ons in sy paaie kan wandel. Want uit Sion sal die wet uitgaan en die woord van die HERE uit Jerusalem.

3 En Hy sal oordeel tussen baie volke en regspreek vir magtige nasies tot in die verte; en hulle sal van hul swaarde pikke smee en van hul spiese snoeimesse; nie meer sal nasie teen nasie die swaard ophef nie, en hulle sal nie meer leer om oorlog te voer nie.

4 Maar hulle sal sit elkeen onder sy wingerdstok en onder sy vyeboom, sonder dat iemand hulle verskrik; want die mond van die HERE van die leërskare het dit gespreek.

5 Want al die volke mag wandel elkeen in die naam van sy god, maar ons sal wandel in die Naam van die HERE onse God vir ewig en altoos.

6 In die dag, spreek die HERE, wil Ek versamel die wat kreupel is, en bymekaarmaak wat verdryf was, en die wat Ek kwaad aangedoen het.

7 Dan sal Ek die wat kreupel was, tot 'n oorblyfsel maak en wat ver verwyder was, tot 'n magtige nasie. En die HERE sal koning wees oor hulle op die berg Sion, van nou af tot in ewigheid.

8 En jy, Skaapstoring, Heuwel van die dogter van Sion, na jou sal dit kom, ja, die vroeëre heerskappy sal kom, die koningskap vir die dogter van Jerusalem.

9 Waarom skreeu jy nou so hard? Is daar geen koning in jou nie? Of het jou raadgewer omgekom, sodat smart jou aangegryp het soos van een wat baar?

10 Krimp inmekaar en bring voort, o dogter van Sion, soos een wat baar! Want nou sal jy die stad verlaat en op die veld gaan woon; en jy sal in Babel aankom -- d r sal jy gered word, d r sal die HERE jou verlos uit die hand van jou vyande.

11 En nou is daar baie nasies teen jou versamel wat sê: Laat haar ontheilig word, en laat ons oë met welgevalle neersien op Sion.

12 Maar hulle ken nie die gedagtes van die HERE nie en verstaan nie sy besluit nie, dat Hy hulle versamel het soos gerwe op die dorsvloer.

13 Staan op en dors, o dogter van Sion! Want Ek sal jou horing yster maak en jou kloue koper, en jy sal baie volke fyn trap; en jy sal hulle onregverdige wins aan die HERE toewy en hulle rykdom aan die Here van die ganse aarde. [ (Micah 4:14) Nou sal jy by hope bymekaar moet kom, o dogter van krygsbendes; die vyand het 'n wal teen ons opgegooi; met 'n stok slaan hulle die regeerder van Israel op die kakebeen. ]

1 But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.

2 And a number of nations will go 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 give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

3 And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.

4 But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.

5 For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

6 In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil;

7 And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.

8 And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

12 But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

14 \5:1\Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.