Isaiah 2:1–8

Everlasting Peace

2This is the message which God gave to Isaiah son of Amoz about Judah and Jerusalem:

²In days to come

the mountain where the Temple stands

will be the highest one of all,

towering above all the hills.

Many nations will come streaming to it,

³and their people will say,

“Let us go up the hill of the Lord,^d

to the Temple of Israel’s God.

He will teach us what he wants us to do;

we will walk in the paths he has chosen.

For the Lord’s teaching comes from Jerusalem;

from Zion he speaks to his people.”

^4*He will settle disputes among great nations.

They will hammer their swords into ploughs

and their spears into pruning knives.

Nations will never again go to war,

never prepare for battle again.

⁵Now, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light which the Lord gives us!

Arrogance Will Be Destroyed

⁶O God, you have forsaken your people, the descendants of Jacob! The land is full of magic practices from the east and from Philistia.^e The people follow foreign customs. ⁷Their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots. ⁸Their land is full of idols, and they worship objects that they have made with their own hands.