4. He will settle disputes among the nationsand provide arbitration for many peoples.They will turn their swords into plowsand their spears into pruning knives. Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,and they will never again train for war.
5. House of Jacob,come and let us walk in the Lord’s light.
6. For You have abandoned Your people,the house of Jacob,because they are full of divination from the Eastand of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners.
7. Their land is full of silver and gold,and there is no limit to their treasures;their land is full of horses,and there is no limit to their chariots.
8. Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands,to what their fingers have made.
9. So humanity is brought low,and man is humbled.Do not forgive them!
10. Go into the rocks and hide in the dustfrom the terror of the Lord and from His majestic splendor.
11. Human pride will be humbled, and the loftiness of men will be brought low;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
12. For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is comingagainst all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up — it will be humbled —
13. against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up,against all the oaks of Bashan,