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[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;(A)
One nation shall not raise the sword against another,
    nor shall they train for war again.(B)
[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.