Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.