Isaiah 2:1–8

The Message About Jerusalem

2Isaiah son of Amoz saw this message about Judah and Jerusalem:

²In the last days

the mountain on which the Lord’s Temple stands

will become the most important of all mountains.

It will be raised above the hills,

and people from all nations will come streaming to it.

³Many nations will come and say,

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

to the Temple of the God of Jacob.

Then God will teach us his ways,

and we will obey his teachings.”

His teachings will go out from Jerusalem;

the message of the Lord will go out from Jerusalem.

⁴He will settle arguments among the nations

and will make decisions for many nations.

Then they will make their swords into plows

and their spears into hooks for trimming trees.

Nations will no longer fight other nations,

nor will they train for war anymore.

⁵Come, family of Jacob,

and let us follow the way of the Lord.

A Terrible Day Is Coming

⁶Lord, you have left your people,

the family of Jacob,

because they have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East.

They try to tell the future like the Philistines,

and they have completely accepted those foreign ideas.

⁷Their land has been filled with silver and gold;

there are a great many treasures there.

Their land has been filled with horses;

there are many chariots there.

⁸Their land is full of idols.

The people worship these idols they made with their own hands

and shaped with their own fingers.