Jerusalem’s Ideal Future
1The word that Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2In the days to come,
The Mount of the Lord’s House
Shall stand firm above the mountains
And tower above the hills;
And all the nations
Shall gaze on it with joy.
3And the many peoples shall go and say:
“Come,
Let us go up to the Mount of the Lord,
To the House of the God of Jacob;
That He may instruct us in His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction shall come fortha from Zion,
The word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4Thus He will judge among the nations
And arbitrate for the many peoples,
And they shall beat their swords into plowsharesb
And their spears into pruning hooks:
Nation shall not take up
Sword against nation;
They shall never again know war.
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Notes
I.e., oracles will be obtainable.
More exactly, the iron points with which wooden plows were tipped.
Credits
Reprinted from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
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