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\c 4
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\v 1 Yahweh says that some day his temple will be on top of a mountain,
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\q1 and that mountain will be the most important one on the earth;
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\q2 it will be as though it was higher than all the hills,
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\q1 and huge groups of people from all over the world will come there to worship.
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\p
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\v 2 People from many nations will say to each other,
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\q1 "Let us go to the mountain where Yahweh is,
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\q2 to the temple where we can worship the God whom Jacob worshiped.
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\q1 There he will teach us how he wants us to conduct our lives,
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\q2 and we will do what he wants us to do."
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\q1 Mount Zion is the place where he will teach people;
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\q2 and people will go out from Jerusalem to tell others his messages.
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh will settle disputes between many different people and groups who are fighting against each other,
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\q2 and he will also settle disputes between powerful nations that are far away.
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\q1 Then people will hammer their swords to cause them to become plow blades,
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\q2 and hammer their spears to cause them to become pruning knives.
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\q1 Armies of nations will no longer fight against armies of other nations,
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\q2 and they will no longer train men how to fight in wars.
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\q1
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\v 4 Everyone will sit peacefully under his own grapevines,
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\q2 and under his own fig trees;
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\q1 no one will cause them to be afraid.
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\q2 That is what will surely happen because Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has said it.
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\q1
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\v 5 Many of the people of other nations will worship their own gods,
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\q2 but we will worship Yahweh our God always, forever.
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\p
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\v 6 Yahweh says, "There will soon be a time when I will gather the people whom I have punished,
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\q1 who have been exiled,
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\q2 all those whom I have caused to suffer much.
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\q1
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\v 7 My people who did not die while they were exiled will become a strong nation again.
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\q1 Then I, Yahweh, will be their king,
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\q2 and I will rule from Jerusalem forever.
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\q1
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\v 8 As for you people of Jerusalem,
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\q2 you who guard all of my people as a shepherd guards his sheep from a tower,
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\q1 you who live on Mount Zion will have great power again.
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\q2 You people who live in Jerusalem will again rule as you did previously.
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\q1
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\v 9 So why are you wailing now?
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\q2 Is it because you have no king?
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\q1 Have all your wise people died?
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\q2 You are weeping loudly like a woman who is giving birth to a baby.
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\q1
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\v 10 Well, you people of Jerusalem should twist and groan as a woman who is having birth pains,
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\q2 because now you must leave this city.
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\q1 While you are traveling, you will set up tents in open fields at night;
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\q2 you will go to live in Babylon.
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\q1 But while you are there,
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\q2 I, Yahweh, will rescue you;
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\q1 I will free you from the power of your enemies.
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\q1
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\v 11 Now the armies of many nations have gathered to attack you.
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\q2 They are saying, 'Jerusalem must be destroyed!
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\q2 We want to see this city when it becomes ruins!'"
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\q1
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\v 12 The prophet says, they do not know what Yahweh thinks;
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\q2 and they do not understand what he is planning.
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\q1 He will gather them and punish them
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\q2 as farmers thresh grain on the ground.
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\b
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\v 13 Yahweh says, "So, you people of Jerusalem, rise up and punish the nations who oppose you.
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\q2 I will cause you to be very strong,
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\q1 as if you had horns made of iron,
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\q2 as if you had hooves made of bronze;
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\q2 and you will crush many nations.
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\q1 Then you will take from your enemies the valuable things that they have taken from other countries,
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\q2 and I will cause you to dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth."
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