The Mountain of the House of the LORD
(Isaiah 2:1–4)
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD Isa 2:1-4Jer 3:17Act 2:17Psa 22:27Zec 14:16-21Psa 86:9Zec 8:3Ezk 43:12
will be established as the chief of the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and the peoples will stream to it.
And many nations will come and say: Isa 2:3Jer 31:6Act 1:8Isa 54:13Psa 25:12Psa 25:8-9Zec 14:8-9Isa 42:1-4
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us His ways,
so that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Then He will judge between many peoples Isa 2:4Jol 3:9-16Mat 25:31-32Hos 2:18Act 17:31Isa 65:25Jhn 5:22-23Jhn 5:27-29
and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide.
Then they will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation,
nor will they train anymore for war.
And each man will sit under his own vine Zec 3:101Ki 4:25Ezk 39:26Isa 1:20Isa 54:14Isa 58:14Ezk 34:28Isa 40:5
and under his own fig tree,
with no one to frighten him.
For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
Though each of the peoples Zec 10:12Col 3:17Jos 24:15Isa 2:5Psa 145:1-2Psa 48:142Ki 17:292Ki 17:34
may walk in the name of his god,
yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God
forever and ever.
The Restoration of Zion
(Zechariah 8:1–23)
“On that day,” declares the LORD, Zep 3:19Ezk 34:12-17Isa 56:8Isa 35:3-6Jhn 10:16Mic 2:12Psa 147:2Ezk 36:24
“I will gather the lame;
I will assemble the outcast,
even those whom I have afflicted.
And I will make the lame into a remnant, Dan 7:14Isa 24:23Luk 1:33Mic 2:12Mic 5:7-8Mic 7:18Isa 9:6-7Mic 5:3
and the outcast into a strong nation.
Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion
from that day and forever.
And you, O watchtower of the flock, Isa 1:26Rev 22:5Zec 9:10Dan 2:44Gen 35:21Oba 1:21Zec 9:122Sa 5:7
O stronghold 1of the Daughter of Zion—
the former dominion will be restored to you;
sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
Why do you now cry aloud? Jer 8:19Isa 3:1-7Lam 4:20Hos 10:3Hos 13:10-11Hos 3:4Isa 13:8Isa 21:3
Is there no king among you?
Has your counselor perished
so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?
Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, Isa 48:202Ki 20:18Hos 13:13Hos 2:14Isa 43:14Isa 45:13Isa 52:9-122Ch 36:20
like a woman in labor.
For now you will leave the city
and camp in the open fields.
You will go to Babylon;
there you will be rescued;
there the LORD will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies!
But now many nations Oba 1:12Isa 5:25-30Mic 7:10Isa 8:7-8Jer 52:4Jol 3:2-15Lam 2:15-16
have assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD Isa 55:8Jer 29:11Rom 11:33-34Jol 3:12-13Luk 3:17Zec 14:1-3Rev 14:14-20Isa 21:10
or understand His plan,
for He has gathered them
like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, Isa 41:15-16Dan 2:44Isa 18:7Isa 23:181Co 16:2Rev 2:26-27Rev 21:24-26Rom 15:25-28
for I will give you horns of iron
and hooves of bronze
to break to pieces many peoples.
Then you will devote 2their gain to the LORD,
their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.