Isaiah 2:1–8

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

²It shall come to pass in the latter days

that the mountain of the house of the Lord

shall be established as the highest of the mountains,

and shall be raised above the hills;

and all the nations shall flow to it,

³and many peoples shall 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 his ways

and that we may walk in his paths.”

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴He shall judge between the nations,

and shall decide for many peoples;

and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war any more.

⁵O house of Jacob,

come, let us walk

in the light of the Lord.

⁶For thou hast rejected thy people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of diviners from the east

and of soothsayers like the Philistines,

and they strike hands 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;

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their own fingers have made.