Re: I Want My WTV

William Tyndale Version and King James Version hereby endorsed, out of the
many English Bible translations. As to the collected works of William 'sir
francis bacon' Shakespeare and of Sophocles, no not really.

If you really think about it, Tyndale in modern spelling is not hard to read
at all, in fact very direct. It was written according to the commoners'
speech, for the Jute and Saxon commoners, even them heavily sprinkled with
the blood of Ephraim and Judah and Levi and Benjamin. (The ancient Apostles
were married besides.) Turns out the Scriptures really were "plain and
precious" all along. Neither is King James very difficult, though 'clumsy'
in many passages, compared to its predecessor Tyndale. Once you immerse
yourself in reading it, neither is difficult reading, and this is true
especially about Tyndale. The early modern English of Tyndale is more
precise. For instance, when "ye" is used, that is plural for "thou", and
"you" comes after a preposition in place of the plural "ye", whereas in the
singular case it becomes "thee" for "thou". Once you get used to this and
what the old meanings of certain words are, such as "suffer", I think any
literate person in English should be able to handle at least the Tyndale
translation in modern spelling, no problem. Such a person should be able to
handle the 'clumsy' sounding KJV sooner or later, when reading it becomes
second nature. Which is excellent, but less graceful and less fluid than
Tyndale.
---

'The Powerhouse of Creative Thought'

David Daniell's study of the Bible in English examines the Holy Book as an
engine of history and art

Interview by Paul O'Donnell

"The Bible in English" is the product of 15 years' work by David Daniell, an
emeritus professor of English at University College, London. Daunting as its
774 pages appear, the book is engagingly opinionated, frank and
informative--as was Dr. Daniell in a recent interview about how translating
the Bible changed more than just religious history.

You say the Bible has been translated into English more than any other
language. Why English?
It's an accident of history in a way. After the Bible was released into
English by William Tyndale, English rapidly became the language of the
world, and there was this rush to get the Bible into English. Tyndale's was
just the first of ten completely different translations or revisions in the
next hundred years.

It's also important to remember that the New Testament, which is in
Greek, goes very well into English--far better than it goes into Latin.
It's partly a question of grammar and syntax, but chiefly it's that Latin
prefers nouns and Greek prefers verbs. A Latin sentence has the weight
on the nouns, and the Greek sentence has the weight on the verbs. In the
first two chapters of Mark's gospel, the verbs are alive and kicking. The
writer knows the power of the Greek verbs. Tyndale understood that,
and understood that English was very appropriate for that effect.

So Bible translation became an English pursuit.
Right, and one has to remember that for 130 years, England had been the
most Catholic country in Europe by far, with an extremely repressive
Catholic government. When the freedom came to read the Bible, the
backlash was violent--people were burned for reading the Bible and
Tyndale was burned for translating it. But also it set up this acute
interest in getting it into an English that everyone could read. And
everyone did read it. It was the great powerhouse of creative thought
in English under Elizabeth.

In fact, you say that Shakespeare's literary feats can be attributed in part
to Tyndale's translation.
Tyndale used an English plain style. This was a terrific release.
Anybody who had something to say could write, and they did. It was
this foundation of great directness that Shakespeare took over. "To be
or not to be" is a very simple sentence and "The rest is silence" is
completely understandable by anybody. Of course, Shakespeare has
on top of that his gigantic imaginative power, which was not Tyndale's
interest. He was writing for accuracy and clarity.

Who was Tyndale's audience?
Everybody. He very famously said to a cleric he was debating, "If God
spare my life many more years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plough
to know more of Scripture than thou doth." The ploughboys did read it, in
little books they carried in their pockets. And so also, in the version that
became the Geneva Bible in 1660, did the highest clerics. Everybody read it.

....

What about the efforts to make the Bible easier to read, like the Good News
Bible or The Message?
I'm very critical of a lot of what they do. The Message is afraid of
upsetting people, which seems to me odd, considering that Christ gave his
life on the cross. At the end of 1 Corinthians 13, Paul's great hymn to
love, Tyndale says, "Then shall I know even as I am known." It says that
love leads to being known, a very profound concept. Peterson has, "It won't
be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright." That's near
criminal. It's not what the Greek says, and the uplift is completely wrong
for Paul. We no longer burn Christians alive, we sell them a New Testament
from which God has been removed.

On the other hand, if a truckdriver throws aside a girlie mag for
The Good News Bible to get something from it, who am I to criticize?

Which translation would you recommend?
I don't think you can beat the original Tyndale. People keep writing to
me to say how modern he is. But if you want a truly modern one, there's also
one that's not very well known in America called the Revised English Bible.
It came out in the late 1980s. It was the first that had Roman Catholics and
Protestants working together on it. Parts of the Old Testament are a bit
dodgy, but the New Testament is extremely good.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/133/story_13302_1.html
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/133/story_13302_2.html
---

Journal of Discourses, Vol.13, Pg.213 - Pg.216, Brigham Young, July 17,
1870:

Who is there that can say baptism is not necessary for the remission of
sins? Jesus and the Apostles said it was necessary. Can I say it is not?
I cannot, and it is a fact that all who receive eternal life and salvation
will receive it on no other conditions than believing in the Son of God and
obeying the principles that he has laid down. Can we devise any other means
and plan of salvation? We cannot. Will we do away with the Bible? We will
not; though the Christian world are actually coming to the point that they
will dismiss the Bible from their schools; and by and by they will dismiss
it from their pulpits and get one to suit themselves; they will hew out for
themselves cisterns that will hold no water. They cannot abide the doctrine
contained in the Old and New Testament, "and," say they, "we must alter and
change it; it does not suit our condition. It was not written for us; it
was written for people in days of old; but we live under different
circumstances and the Bible should be altered, and we will assemble our
synods and have the Scriptures revised to suit our condition." Have they
commenced this? Yes, and not very recently either. Can you find a copy of
the first printed edition of the Bible? We have Bibles between two and
three hundred years old, but where can the first Bibles that were printed be
obtained? While I was travelling in England there was one sold for five
hundred pounds. It had belonged to one of our brethren--had descended to
him from his ancestors; and he, not knowing its value, sold it for fifteen
shillings. Afterwards, if my memory serves me correctly, it was sold for
the sum I have named. We cannot find books of that edition; some that have
been altered and changed are plentiful. I mean King James' translation, and
that is good enough for me; it will answer my purpose. But how is it with
the Christian world? Will it answer theirs? If it will, why do they not
abide by it? Why do they not say, "This shall be our rule of faith, and our
lives and works shall correspond with its principles and precepts?" They
would do so if they were honest and their belief was sincere. And it will
have to be so with them if ever they gain admittance into the kingdom of
God, for in the Bible are the words of life and salvation. I ask again, who
can say that baptism is not necessary for the remission of sins? The
question has been asked, "What virtue is there in the water?" If there is
no virtue in it don't drink it; it is not good for the system if there is no
virtue in it. But there is virtue in it. If there is not, we should never
apply it to our clothing or to the surfaces of our bodies for cleansing
purposes; we should never use any more for cooking; we should never again
apply it to the soil for the purpose of irrigation. How inconsistent it is
to suppose that water should be used for so many and important purposes in
life if there is no virtue in it! But there is virtue in it, and there is
virtue in being buried beneath the wave in the likeness of Christ, and
coming forth to a newness of life. There is virtue in being born again,
whether in the font or in the river, it makes no difference, for Jesus has
said that "except a man be born of the water and of the spirit he cannot
enter the kingdom of God." When a person is buried beneath the water he
comes forth from one element to another, and is literally born again. Who,
then, after the declaration of Jesus on this subject, can say that baptism
is not necessary or that there is no virtue in the water? I cannot. Who
can say that the laying on of hands is not necessary for the reception of
the Holy Ghost? It is true that the house of Cornelius received the Holy
Ghost before the Gospel was preached unto them. But the Lord had a special
purpose in view in its bestowal in their case, namely, the removal of the
prejudice of Peter and his brethren, who, being Jews, and full of the
traditions of their fathers, thought that the Gentiles--among whom Cornelius

and his house were classed--were not privileged to receive the Gospel. But
the vision which Peter had on this subject, and the message sent to him by
Cornelius in obedience to the command of the Lord in connection with the
fact of the bestowal of the Holy Ghost on Cornelius and his family was so
convincing to Peter and his brethren that the former was constrained to
exclaim, "Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized, which
have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" Some may say, "What was the
necessity of sending for Peter, one of the Apostles, when they had already
received the Holy Ghost?" The simple fact is this: there was nobody to
baptize Cornelius and his household, nobody to bury them with Christ in the
water; no one had authority to baptize them for the remission of their sins;
and consequently, although they had received the Holy Ghost, an Apostle had
to be sent for to administer that ordinance. And we read further in
relation to this case, that Peter "commanded them to be baptized in the name
of the Lord." Did any others receive the Holy Ghost before baptism? None
that we have any record of; but there is no doubt that many who were worthy
received it in a measure; but, whether in the days of the Apostles or in our
day, when the doctrine of baptism for the remission of sins is preached by a
servant of the Lord to persons who have received the Holy Ghost, if they
reject that doctrine the Holy Ghost will withdraw from them for ever. Is it
necessary that believers should obey all the doctrines and ordinances taught
and established by the Savior? There is no ordinance that God has
delivered, by His own voice, through His Son Jesus Christ or by the mouths
of any of His prophets, Apostles or evangelists, that is useless. Every
ordinance, every commandment and requirement is necessary for the salvation
of the human family.

What are we required to do? To receive the Gospel, the ordinances of the
house of God, and then to go on to perfection. We have been baptized for
the remission of sins and have received the laying on of hands for the Holy
Ghost. We have Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, and so
on. Are we not perfect? According to the testimony of the Apostle we are
not. Says he, Hebrews 6th chapter and 1st verse, "Therefore not leaving the
principle of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection."

How will perfection be obtained? By all persons in the kingdom of God
living so as to be revelators from the heavens for themselves and for all
they preside over, that everything they have to perform in this life--every
worldly care and duty, and all their walk and conversation before each other
and before the Lord, may be marked out by the spirit of revelation. Is this
the way to perfection? It is. This is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;
this is the Gospel of life and salvation. Who can dispute it? We must
destroy the Bible before we can dispute it with any hope of success. But we
may do away with the Bible and say it is no use to us, it has lost its
virtue; it was written for the people six thousand, four thousand, two
thousand, or eighteen hundred years ago, and it is not for us now. We have
plenty upon the earth who can tell the will of God to the children of men
and lead the people back into the presence of God; and if the Bible were
destroyed by accident, it can be re-written, and all the words of the Lord
that are necessary for their salvation can be given to the people. We are
thankful for this.

Are we, the Latter-day Saints, loved for entertaining these views and for
declaring these truths? "Oh, well," says the stranger, "you should not be
hated." If we are hated for anything it is for preaching the Gospel of life
and salvation. If we are hated for anything it is for good works instead of
evil works, no matter who hears, tells or writes to the contrary. Truth is
truth and will prevail. Are we in fault for believing in Jesus Christ? We
ask the whole Christian world, Can you give us the words of life and
salvation, or tell us how to be saved? Could you do this when we belonged
to your societies, Presbyterians, Baptists or any of you Protestants? Not
the first individual amongst you could point out the path, for one short
rod, to the kingdom of God. Do I know this? Certainly I do by experience.
I have searched for the truth, though in my youth I was called an infidel,
and I was an infidel. What to? This Bible? No, to false creeds, and to
professing without possessing, as I am to-day.

Where is the man who can point out the way of life and salvation? Who can
tell us of God the Father and of our Lord Jesus Christ, and give us their
characters? Who can tell about heaven and heavenly things? Who can
introduce heaven to earth or earth to heaven and bring man to his Father
again, and re-establish familiarity and association between them, which is
so much desired by intelligent beings? The prophet of God, Joseph Smith,
commenced it in this generation, no matter how odious his name may be to the
inhabitants of the earth. I will defy any nation to hate a man more than
the Jews hated the name of Jesus Christ--when he lived in the flesh. I
honor and revere the name of Joseph Smith. I delight to hear it; I love it.
I love his doctrine. Why? Because it is true, and truth will abide when
error passes away. Life will remain when they who have rejected the words
of eternal life are swallowed up in death. I like the truth because it is
true, because it is lovely and delightful, because it is so glorious in its
nature, and so worthy the admiration, faith and consideration of all
intelligent beings in heaven or on the earth. Should I be hated and my name
cast out as evil because I love the truth? Yes, or the words of Jesus could
not be fulfilled, for he said, "Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake." He told his disciples to rejoice evermore and to pray without
ceasing when they were held in derision by their enemies, and to lift up
their heads and rejoice when all men spoke evil of them, for "behold your
redemption draweth nigh."

Is there any harm in believing in the Lord Jesus Christ? I frequently ask
the question for my own satisfaction. Is there a doctrine taught in this
book (the Bible), that would ruin or injure man, woman or child on the face
of the earth? Not one. Is there a doctrine taught by Jesus and his
disciples that would not do good to the people morally, physically,
socially, religiously or politically? Not one. Did Joseph Smith ever teach
a doctrine that would not elevate the soul, feelings, heart and affections
of every individual who would embrace it? Not one. Did he ever teach a
doctrine that would lead those who embraced it down to wretchedness, woe and
misery, that would give them pain for ease, darkness for light, error for
truth? No; but just the reverse. He proffered life and salvation--light
for darkness and truth for error. He proffered all that was in the Gospel
of the Son of God, and proclaimed that very Gospel that John saw the angel
flying through the midst of heaven to restore. That angel delivered the
keys of this apostleship and ministry to Joseph Smith and his brethren, and
commanded them to blow the Gospel trump through all the nations of the
earth, and to cry to all who love and wait patiently for the appearing of
our Lord Jesus Christ, "Come out of her, my people, that ye may not be
partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues." This was the
doctrine of Jesus; this was the cry of John when on the Isle of Patmos.
That angel has flown through the midst of heaven having the everlasting
Gospel to preach to those who dwell on earth, and his cry was and is, "Come
out from Babylon, from pride, from the foolish fashions of the world; come
out from the spirit of the world, from the spirit of hatred, anger, malice,
wrath, selfishness and every feeling but that that is honorable and
justified of the heavens. Gather yourselves together! Sanctify the Lord
God in your heart." This was the cry, and it is the cry to-day, and it will
be until the pure in heart are gathered together.

97 And the Gift of the Holy Ghost is received by the laying on of the hands
of the Apostles or one ordained thereunto, and is the Testator of my Father,
and this is received after repentance and baptism by immersion, for the
remission of sins.

98 And thus and only thus are men born again and though I, or an angel from
heaven preach any other doctrine than that which I have preached, let him be
accursed.

99 And all who receive not these things, saith the Lord, shall be cut off
from among the people in that day which shall prove the destruction of this
the American nation when the economy thereof, which is after the Order of
Babylon the Great, shall fall.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 5:97-99 (received by Art Bulla the One Mighty
and Strong)

Sir Francis 'shakespeare' Bacon (New Atlantis):

And because propagation of families proceedeth from the nuptial
copulation, I desired to know of him what laws and customs they had
concerning marriage, and whether they kept marriage well, and whether they
were tied to one wife? For that where population is so much affected, and
such as with them it seemed to be, there is commonly permission of plurality
of wives.

To this he said: "... You shall understand that there is not under the
heavens so chaste a nation as this of Bensalem, nor so free from all
pollution or foulness. It is the virgin of the world.

"I have not read of any such chastity in any people as theirs. And their
usual saying is, that whosoever is unchaste cannot reverence himself; and
they say that the reverence of a man's self, is, next religion, the chiefest
bridle of all vices."

And when he had said this the good Jew paused a little; ... he bowed his
head, and went on this manner.

"They have also many wise and excellent laws touching marriage. They allow
no polygamy. ...

Journal of Discourses, Vol.9, Pg.322, Brigham Young, July 6, 1862:

Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of
Heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman
empire. That empire was founded on the banks of the Tiber by wandering
brigands. When these robbers founded the city of Rome, it was evident to
them that their success in attaining a balance of power with their
neighbours, depended upon introducing females into their body politic, so
they stole them from the Sabines, who were near neighbours. The scarcity of
women gave existence to laws restricting one wife to one man. Rome became
the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever
her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so
esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is
nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

1 And in those days, in the ninety-first year of the life of Abram, the
children of Chittim made war with the children of Tubal, for when the Lord
had scattered the sons of men upon the face of the earth, the children of
Chittim went and embodied themselves in the plain of Canopia, and they built
themselves cities there and dwelt by the river Tibreu.

2 And the children of Tubal dwelt in Tuscanah, and their boundaries reached
the river Tibreu, and the children of Tubal built a city in Tuscanan, and
they called the name Sabinah, after the name of Sabinah son of Tubal their
father, and they dwelt there unto this day.

3 And it was at that time the children of Chittim made war with the children
of Tubal, and the children of Tubal were smitten before the children of
Chittim, and the children of Chittim caused three hundred and seventy men to
fall from the children of Tubal.

4 And at that time the children of Tubal swore to the children of Chittim,
saying, You shall not intermarry amongst us, and no man shall give his
daughter to any of the sons of Chittim.

5 For all the daughters of Tubal were in those days fair, for no women were
then found in the whole earth so fair as the daughters of Tubal.

6 And all who delighted in the beauty of women went to the daughters of
Tubal and took wives from them, and the sons of men, kings and princes, who
greatly delighted in the beauty of women, took wives in those days from the
daughters of Tubal.

7 And at the end of three years after the children of Tubal had sworn to the
children of Chittim not to give them their daughters for wives, about twenty
men of the children of Chittim went to take some of the daughters of Tubal,
but they found none.

8 For the children of Tubal kept their oaths not to intermarry with them,
and they would not break their oaths.

9 And in the days of harvest the children of Tubal went into their fields to
get in their harvest, when the young men of Chittim assembled and went to
the city of Sabinah, and each man took a young woman from the daughters of
Tubal, and they came to their cities.

10 And the children of Tubal heard of it and they went to make war with
them, and they could not prevail over them, for the mountain was exceedingly
high from them, and when they saw they could not prevail over them they
returned to their land.

11 And at the revolution of the year the children of Tubal went and hired
about ten thousand men from those cities that were near them, and they went
to war with the children of Chittim.

12 And the children of Tubal went to war with the children of Chittim, to
destroy their land and to distress them, and in this engagement the children
of Tubal prevailed over the children of Chittim, and the children of
Chittim, seeing that they were greatly distressed, lifted up the children
which they had had by the daughters of Tubal, upon the wall which had been
built, to be before the eyes of the children of Tubal.

13 And the children of Chittim said to them, Have you come to make war with
your own sons and daughters, and have we not been considered your flesh and
bones from that time till now?

14 And when the children of Tubal heard this they ceased to make war with
the children of Chittim, and they went away.

15 And they returned to their cities, and the children of Chittim at that
time assembled and built two cities by the sea, and they called one Purtu
and the other Ariza.

16 And Abram the son of Terah was then ninety-nine years old.

Jasher 17:1-16

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/about/
This much seems clear: Technology will be central to the future of American
life and American politics. It will create new political divides and new
moral quandaries. It will force liberals and conservatives, Republicans and
Democrats, to rethink their guiding principles and political vision. The New
Atlantis hopes to be at the center of redefining politics for the
technological age-by helping scientists, policymakers, and citizens deal
more wisely and more creatively with the promise and perils of our nation's
future.

OUR NAME

The New Atlantis (1627) was the title Francis Bacon selected for his fable
of a society living with the benefits and challenges of advanced science
and technology. Bacon, a founder and champion of modern science,
sought not only to highlight the potential of technology to improve human
life, but also to foresee some of the social, moral, and political
difficulties that confront a society shaped by the great scientific
enterprise. His book offers no obvious answers; perhaps it seduces
more than it warns. But the tale also hints at some of the dilemmas that
arise with the ability to remake and reconfigure the natural world:
governing science, so that it might flourish freely without destroying or
dehumanizing us, and understanding the effect of technology on human
life, human aspiration, and the human good. To a great extent, we live
in the world Bacon imagined, and now we must find a way to live well
with both its burdens and its blessings. This very challenge, which now
confronts our own society most forcefully, is the focus of this journal.

MASTHEAD

....

Editor-at-Large
Eric Cohen

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he
appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

3 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifer of silver: and he shall purify
the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer
unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD,
as in the days of old, and as in former years.

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness
against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false
swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the
widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his
right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

6 For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.

(Old Testament | Malachi 3:2 - 6)

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
[and] save us.

3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man
[whom] thou madest strong for thyself.

(Old Testament | Psalms 80:1 - 3,17)

12 ¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I
declare [that] I will render double unto thee;

13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up
thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of
a mighty man.

(Old Testament | Zechariah 9:12 - 13)

Journal of Discourses, Vol.20, Pg.200 - Pg.201, George Q. Cannon, April 6,
1879:

I consider our false tradition upon this subject one of the greatest evils
at the present time that exists upon the earth. It has come down to us from
the Greeks and Romans, than whom a more abominable lot of people never lived
upon the earth. To read their books is enough to make a man with the least
feeling of modesty blush and be ashamed of his race. Yet they are
introduced into our literature. Whoever reads Horace, Sallust, and numbers
of those authors, well knows how full of corruption they are. Not only
crimes, but crimes against nature were justified by some of the best and
most noted of Greek philosophers, and were practised by Sophocles, Socrates,
and others; and yet this is the philosophy that has come down to us. They
had a class of women in their midst who were regularly compensated and
sustained as courtesans; they were maintained in order that the purity of
the domestic circle might be unpolluted. And this has come down to us in
Christendom, in Europe and America to the present time. The fairest of
Earth's daughters fall yearly sacrifices to the abominable lusts of men.
How is the domestic circle preserved in monogamous countries to-day? It is
only preserved at the expense of this class to which I have referred, by
those priestesses of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people, living
short lives and carrying with them the effects of man's abominable lust.

[end of Scripture quote]

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is one of the classics? Is it? No, just more of the
same dark sarcasm uttered by unclean tongues of ***-monkeys and
smut-monkeys obssessing over dung.

Jethro Tull:

The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.
Let's bungle in the jungle -- well, that's all right by me.

1 HEARKEN, O ye Gentiles, and hear the words of Jesus Christ, the Son of the
living God, which he hath commanded me that I should speak concerning you,
for, behold he commandeth me that I should write, saying:

2 Turn, all ye Gentiles, from your wicked ways; and repent of your evil
doings, of your lyings and deceivings, and of your whoredoms, and of your
secret abominations, and your idolatries, and of your murders, and your
priestcrafts, and your envyings, and your strifes, and from all your
wickedness and abominations, and come unto me, and be baptized in my name,
that ye may receive a remission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy
Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my people who are of the house of
Israel.

(Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 30:1 - 2)

1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the
LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of the LORD, 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 shall go forth
the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 2:1 - 5)


.