1. Isaiah son of Amoz saw this message about Judah and Jerusalem.
2. In the last daysthe mountain on which the Lord’s Temple standswill become the most important of all mountains.It will be raised above the hills.And people from all nations will come streaming to it.
3. Many nations will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord.Let us go to the Temple of the God of Jacob.Then God will teach us his ways.And we will obey his teachings.”The Lord’s teachings will go out from Jerusalem.The Lord’s message will go out from Jerusalem.
4. Then the Lord will settle arguments among many nations.He will make decisions for strong nations that are far away.Then the nations will make their swords into plows.They will make their spears into hooks for trimming trees.Nations will no longer fight other nations.They will not even train for war anymore.
5. Come, family of Jacob.We should follow the way of the Lord.
6. Lord, you have left your people,the family of Jacob.They have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East.Your people try to tell the future like the Philistines.They have completely accepted those foreign ideas.
7. Their land has been filled with silver and gold.There are a great many treasures there.Their land has been filled with horses.There are many chariots there.
8. Their land is full of idols.The people worship these idols that they made with their own hands.They worship statues shaped by their fingers.
9. People will not be proud any longer.They will bow low with shame.God, do not forgive them.
10. Go into the caves of the cliffs.Dig holes and hide in the ground.Hide from the anger of the Lordand from his great power!