1. In the future, the mountainwith the Lord's templewill be the highest of all.It will reach above the hills,and every nationwill rush to it.
2. People of many nationswill come and say,“Let's go up to the mountainof the Lord God of Jacoband worship in his temple.”The Lord will teach us his Lawfrom Jerusalem,and we will obey him.
3. He will settle argumentsbetween distantand powerful nations.They will beat their swordsand their spearsinto rakes and shovels;they will never again make waror attack one another.
4. Everyone will find restbeneath their own fig treesor grapevines,and they will live in peace.This is a solemn promiseof the Lord All-Powerful.
5. Others may follow their gods,but we will always followthe Lord our God.
6. The Lord said:At that timeI will gather my people—the lame and the outcasts,and all into whose livesI have brought sorrow.
7. Then the lame and the outcastswill belong to my peopleand become a strong nation.I, the Lord, will rule themfrom Mount Zion for ever.