9. They will not hurt or destroy anyone anywhere on my holy mountain.The world will be filled with the knowledge of the Lordlike water covering the sea.
10. At that time the root of Jesse will stand as a bannerfor the people ⌊to gather around⌋.The nations will come to him.His resting place will be glorious.
11. At that time the Lord will use his power againto recover what remains of his peoplein Assyria, Upper and Lower Egypt,Sudan, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath,and the islands of the sea.
12. He will raise a banner for the nations ⌊to gather around⌋.He will gather the outcasts of Israeland bring together the scattered people of Judahfrom the four corners of the earth.
13. Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,and Judah’s opponents will come to an end.Ephraim won’t be jealous of Judah,and Judah won’t oppose Ephraim.
14. They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia in the west.Together they will loot the people of the east.They will conquer Edom and Moab.The people of Ammon will be subject to them.
15. The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian Sea.He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River with his scorching windand divide it into seven streamsso that people can walk over it in their sandals.
16. There will be a highwayfor the remaining few of his people left in Assyrialike there was for Israel when it came out of Egypt.