The Future House of God

2The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²In days to come
   the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
   and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it.
³   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 instruction,
   and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
   and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
   and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
   neither shall they learn war any more.

Judgement Pronounced on Arrogance

⁵O house of Jacob,
   come, let us walk
   in the light of the Lord!
⁶For you have forsaken the ways of^* your people,
   O house of Jacob.
Indeed they are full of diviners^* from the east
   and of soothsayers like the Philistines,
   and they clasp 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.
⁹And so people are humbled,
   and everyone is brought low—
   do not forgive them!
¹⁰Enter into the rock,
   and hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord,
   and from the glory of his majesty.