to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on
the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
003:007 The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded.
Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no
answer from God."
003:008 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh,
and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience,
and to Israel his sin.
003:009 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob,
and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice,
and pervert all equity.
003:010 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
003:011 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they
lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us?
No disaster will come on us."
003:012 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,
and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain
of the temple like the high places of a forest.
004:001 But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of
Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains,
and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will
stream to it.
004:002 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to
the mountain of Yahweh, 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 out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of
Yahweh from Jerusalem;
004:003 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide
concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will
they learn war any more.
004:004 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree;
and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh
of Armies has spoken.
004:005 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods;
but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
004:006 "In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame,
and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which
I have afflicted;
004:007 and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which
was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign
over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever."
004:008 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come,
the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
004:009 Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you
as of a woman in travail?
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