Isaiah 2:1–8

The Lord Will Teach the Nations—Micah 4:1–3

¹This is the message which Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem. 

²In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house 

will be established as the highest of the mountains 

and raised above the hills. 

All the nations will stream to it. 

³Then many people will come and say, 

“Let’s go to the mountain of the Lord, 

to the house of the God of Jacob. 

He will teach us his ways so that we may live by them.” 

The teachings will go out from Zion. 

The Lord’s word will go out from Jerusalem. 

⁴Then he will judge disputes between nations 

and settle arguments between many people. 

They will hammer their swords into plowblades 

and their spears into pruning shears. 

Nations will never fight against each other, 

and they will never train for war again. 

⁵Come, descendants of Jacob, 

let’s live in the light of the Lord. 

Israel’s Sins

⁶Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob, 

because they are filled with Eastern influences. 

They are fortunetellers like the Philistines, 

and they make deals with foreigners. 

⁷Their land is filled with silver and gold, 

and there is no end to their treasures. 

Their land is filled with horses, 

and there is no end to their chariots. 

⁸Their land is filled with idols, 

and they worship what their hands have shaped 

and what their fingers have molded.