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God will be the judge between different nations. When they argue together, he will say who is right. They will take their swords and they will make them into ploughs. Their spears will become knives to cut their vines. Nations will no longer need weapons to attack other nations. They will not prepare to fight wars any more.

Jacob's family, come now! We need to live in the light that the Lord gives to us.[a]

The great day when the Lord will judge everyone

Lord, you have gone away from your people. They are Jacob's descendants. They are full of ideas from countries in the east. They use magic to learn about future times, as the Philistines do. They join hands with foreign people.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 ‘Jacob's family’ means the Israelite people. God changed Jacob's name to Israel.