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    Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
That he may instruct us in his ways,
    and we may walk in his paths.”(A)
For from Zion shall go forth instruction,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
[a]He shall judge between the nations,
    and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks;(B)
One nation shall not raise the sword against another,
    nor shall they train for war again.(C)
[b]House of Jacob, come,
    let us walk in the light of the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. 2:4 Once the nations acknowledge God as sovereign, they go up to Jerusalem to settle their disputes, rather than having recourse to war.
  2. 2:5 This verse is added as a conclusion to vv. 2–4; cf. Mi 4:4–5, where a quite different conclusion is provided for the parallel version of this oracle.