Isaiah 2:4 — text, Greek, lexicon

Isaiah 2:4Isa.2.4

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.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il sera le juge des nations, L'arbitre d'un grand nombre de peuples. De leurs glaives ils forgeront des hoyaux, Et de leurs lances des serpes: Une nation ne tirera plus l'épée contre une autre, Et l'on n'apprendra plus la guerre.

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Pericope

Isaiah 2:1–44 verses

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Thomas Aquinas
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John Chrysostom
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