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4.2 :For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
 * And the word of the from Jerusalem.
 * And He shall judge between many peoples,
 * And shall decide concerning mighty nations afar off;
 * And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
 * And their spears into priming-hooks,
 * Nation shall not Hit up sword against nation,
 * Neither shall they learn war any more.
 * But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree;
 * And none shall make them afraid,
 * For the mouth of the of hosts hath spoken.


 * For let all the peoples walk each one in the name of its god,
 * But we will walk in the name of the our God for ever and ever.


 * In that day, saith the, will I assemble her that halteth,
 * And I will gather her that is driven away,
 * And her that I have afflicted;
 * And I will make her that halted a remnant,
 * And her that was cast far off a mighty nation;
 * And the shall reign over them in mount Zion from thenceforth even for ever.


 * And thou, Migdal-eder, the hill of the daughter of Zion,
 * Unto thee shall it come;
 * Yea, the former dominion shall come,
 * The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
 * Now why dost thou cry out aloud?
 * Is there no King in thee,
 * Is thy Counsellor perished,
 * That pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?
 * Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,
 * Like a woman in travail;
 * For now shalt thou go forth out of the city,
 * And shalt dwell in the field,
 * And shalt come even unto Babylon;
 * There shalt thou be rescued;
 * There shall the redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.


 * And now many nations are assembled against thee,
 * That say: 'Let her be defiled, and let our eye gaze upon Zion.'
 * But they know not the thoughts of the ,
 * Neither understand they His counsel;
 * For He hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.
 * Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
 * For I will make thy horn iron,
 * And I will make thy hoofs brass;
 * And thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples,
 * And thou shalt devote their gain unto the ,
 * And their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.


 * Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops,
 * They have laid siege against us;
 * They smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


 * But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah,
 * Which art little to be among the thousands of Judah,
 * Out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel;