耶路撒冷的将来
1在末后的日子，
耶和华殿所在的山必超乎群山，
高过众岭，
万民都要归向它。
2多国的民都要前来，说：
“来吧，让我们登耶和华的山，
去雅各之上帝的殿。
祂必指示我们当行的路，
我们也要遵行祂的道。”
因为训诲必出于锡安，
耶和华的话语必来自耶路撒冷。
3祂要在各民族中施行审判，
为远方的强国断定是非。
他们要把刀剑铸成犁头，
把矛枪打成镰刀。
国与国之间不再动刀枪，
也不再学习战争。
4人人都安然坐在自己的葡萄树和无花果树下，
不再担惊受怕。
这是万军之耶和华亲口说的。
5万民都遵从自己的神明，
但我们要永远遵从我们的上帝耶和华。
6耶和华说：
“到那日，我要聚集瘸腿的，
招聚被掳的和被我惩罚的。
7我要使瘸腿的成为余民，
让被掳的成为强国。
耶和华要在锡安山做王治理他们，
从那时直到永远。
8“你这羊群的瞭望塔，
锡安城4:8 “城”希伯来文是“女子”，可能是对锡安的昵称，下同4:13。的坚垒啊！
从前的国权——
耶路撒冷城的王位必重新归你。”
9现在你为何大声哭喊？
是因为你没有王吗？
难道你的谋士都死了吗，
以致你像分娩的妇人一样痛苦不堪？
10锡安的百姓啊，
你们要像分娩的妇人一样辗转呻吟，
因为你们现在要离开这城，
住在荒野，被掳到巴比伦。
在那里，你们将得到解救；
在那里，耶和华必从敌人手中救赎你们。
11现在许多国家一起来攻击你们，说：
“愿锡安遭蹂躏，
我们要看着锡安被毁灭。”
12他们却不知道耶和华的心意，
也不明白祂的计划。
祂聚集他们是要惩罚他们，
像把禾捆堆积在麦场一样。
13耶和华说：
“锡安城啊，
起来打谷吧！
我要给你铁角，
我要给你铜蹄。
你要打碎列国，
将他们的不义之财献给耶和华，
把他们的财富献给普天下的主。”
People From Many Nations Will Worship at the Lord’s Mountain
1In the last days
the mountain where the Lord’s temple is located will be famous.
It will be the highest mountain of all.
It will be lifted up above the hills.
And nations will go to it.
2People from many nations will go there. They will say,
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain.
Let’s go to the temple of Jacob’s God.
He will teach us how we should live.
Then we will live the way he wants us to.”
The law of the Lord will be taught at Zion.
His message will go out from Jerusalem.
3He will judge between people from many nations.
He’ll settle problems among strong nations everywhere.
They will hammer their swords into plows.
They’ll hammer their spears into pruning tools.
Nations will not go to war against one another.
They won’t even train to fight anymore.
4Everyone will have
their own vine and fig tree.
And no one will make them afraid.
That’s what the Lord who rules over all has promised.
5Other nations worship and trust in their gods.
But we will worship and obey the Lord.
He will be our God for ever and ever.
The Lord’s Plan
6“The time is coming
when I will gather those who are disabled,”
announces the Lord.
“I will bring together those
who were taken away as prisoners.
I will gather those I have allowed to suffer.
7I will make the disabled my faithful people.
I will make into a strong nation those driven away from their homes.
I will rule over them on Mount Zion.
I will be their King from that time on and forever.
8Jerusalem, you used to be
like a guard tower for my flock.
City of Zion, you used to be
a place of safety for my people.
The glorious kingdom you had before
will be given back to you.
Once again a king will rule over your people.”
9Why are you crying out so loudly now?
Don’t you have a king?
Has your ruler died?
Is that why pain comes on you
like the pain of a woman having a baby?
10People of Zion, groan with pain.
Cry out like a woman having a baby.
Soon you must leave your city.
You must camp in the open fields.
You will have to go to the land of Babylon.
But that’s where the Lord will save you.
There he will set you free
from the power of your enemies.
11But now many nations
have gathered together to attack you.
They say, “Let Jerusalem be made ‘unclean.’
We want to laugh when Zion suffers!”
12But those nations don’t know
what the Lord has in mind.
They don’t understand his plan.
He has planned to gather them up like bundles of grain.
He has planned to take them to his threshing floor.
13The Lord says,
“People of Zion, get up
and crush your enemies.
I will make you like a threshing ox.
I will give you iron horns and bronze hooves.
So you will crush many nations.”
They got their money in the wrong way.
But you will set it apart to the Lord.
You will give their wealth
to the Lord of the whole earth.
