Isaiah 2:1–8

God’s Universal Reign

1 The word which aIsaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Now it will come about that

aIn the last days

The bmountain of the house of the Lord

Will be established 1as the chief of the mountains,

And will be raised above the hills;

And call the nations will stream to it.

3 And many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

That He may teach us 1concerning His ways

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For the 2law will go forth afrom Zion

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 And He will judge between the nations,

And will 1render decisions for many peoples;

And athey will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

bNation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

5 Come, ahouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the blight of the Lord.

6 For You have aabandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers blike the Philistines,

And they cstrike bargains with the children of foreigners.

7 Their land has also been filled with silver and gold

And there is no end to their treasures;

Their land has also been filled with ahorses

And there is no end to their chariots.

8 Their land has also been afilled with idols;

They worship the bwork of their hands,

That which their fingers have made.