3 He will settle disputes among the nations,among the great powers near and far.They will hammer their swords into plowsand their spears into pruning knives.Nations will never again go to war,never prepare for battle again.
4 Everyone will live in peaceamong their own vineyards and fig trees,and no one will make them afraid.The Lord Almighty has promised this.
5 Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the Lord our God forever and ever.
6 “The time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will gather together the people I punished, those who have suffered in exile.
7 They are crippled and far from home, but I will make a new beginning with those who are left, and they will become a great nation. I will rule over them on Mount Zion from that time on and forever.”
8 And you, Jerusalem, where God, like a shepherd from his lookout tower, watches over his people, will once again be the capital of the kingdom that was yours.
9 Why do you cry out so loudly? Why are you suffering like a woman in labor? Is it because you have no king, and your counselors are dead?