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above the hills, and all nations should flow into it— and many people should go and say, come ye and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah; to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways; and we will walk in his paths; for from Zion shall go forth the law; and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem, and he shall judge among the nations, and work conviction in many people,—and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up their swords against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

The wolf is then to take up his abode with the lamb, and the leopard lye down with the kid-and the calf and the young lion and the fatling shall come together, and a little child shall lead them.

The heifer and the she-bear shall feed together. Together shall their young ones lie down, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp; and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den-They shall not hurt nor destroy in all the holy mountain, for the earth is to be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the depths of the sea.-The root of Jesse is to be an ensign to the people, and to him shall the nations repair, and his resting place shall be glorious."

About this happy period, in fulfilment of the promises of his word, the dispersed Jews are to be

collected together a second time, from the nations of the east, and from the western regions (called in our translations, the islands of the sea)—" And he shall lift up a signal to the nations; and he shall gather the out-casts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah shall be collect from the four extremities of the earth. -And all animosity and envy of the tribes, with one another, are to cease.

They shall together invade the borders of the Philistines westward-together shall they spoil the children of the east.

Jehovah shall smite with a drought the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and he shall strike his hand over the river with his vehement wind, and he shall strike it into seven streams, and make them to be passed over dry shod; and there shall be a high way for the remnant of his people, which shall remain from Assyria, as it was unto Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt-And his people are to return unto their own land, for he is to have mercy on Jacob, and yet to choose Israel, and give them rest in their own land; and strangers shall cleave to the house of Jacob, and bring them into their own place; and the house of Jacob shall possess them in the land of Jehovah, as servants, and hand-maidens to his people in their own land; and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors

a present is at that time to be brought to him of a people scattered and peeled; and that from a nation

above the hills, and all nations should flow into itand many people should go and say, come ye and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah; to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways; and we will walk in his paths; for from Zion shall go forth the law; and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem, and he shall judge among the nations, and work conviction in many people,-and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up their swords against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

The wolf is then to take up his abode with the lamb, and the leopard lye down with the kid-and the calf and the young lion and the fatling shall come together, and a little child shall lead them.

The heifer and the she-bear shall feed together. Together shall their young ones lie down, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp; and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den-They shall not hurt nor destroy in all the holy mountain, for the earth is to be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the depths of the sea. The root of Jesse is to be an ensign to the people, and to him shall the nations repair, and his resting place shall be glorious."

About this happy period, in fulfilment of the promises of his word, the dispersed Jews are to be

collected together a second time, from the nations of the east, and from the western regions (called in our translations, the islands of the sea)" And he shall lift up a signal to the nations; and he shall gather the out-casts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah shall he collect from the four extremities of the earth. -And all animosity and envy of the tribes, with one another, are to cease.

They shall together invade the borders of the Philistines westward-together shall they spoil the children of the east.

Jehovah shall smite with a drought the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and he shall strike his hand over the river with his vehement wind, and he shall strike it into seven streams, and make them to be passed over dry shod; and there shall be a high way for the remnant of his people, which shall remain from Assyria, as it was unto Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt-And his people are to return unto their own land, for he is to have mercy on Jacob, and yet to choose Israel, and give them rest in their own land; and strangers shall cleave to the house of Jacob, and bring them into their own place; and the house of Jacob shall possess them in the land of Jehovah, as servants, and hand-maidens to his people in their own land; and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors

a present is at that time to be brought to him of a people scattered and peeled; and that from a nation

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terrible from their beginning: a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have nourished, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

In that day, there shall be a high way from Egypt to Assyria; and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria-and the Egyptian shall worship with the Assyrian-at the same time Israel is to be reckoned a third, together with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless; saying blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

The earth shall then be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea; and God will destroy the covering cast over all people and the vail that is spread over all nations, and the reproach of his people shall be taken away from the earthEvery valley is then to be exalted, and every mounain and hill are to be made low; and the crooked paths are to be made straight; and the rough places plain, and the glory of the Lord is to be revealed, nd all flesh are to see it. The desert and the waste hall then be glad ; and the wilderness shall rejoice and flourish, and the well-watered plain of Jordan shall so rejoice: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto the beauty of Carmel and Sharon-These shall en behold the glory of Jehovah ; the majesty of our od.

The eyes of the blind are to be unclosed; and the s of the deaf are to be opened. The lame are to

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