They will not harm or destroy each other on my entire holy mountain, for the land will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is filled with water.
he says, ‘It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.’
The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter #– #like the light of seven days #– #on the day that the Lord bandages his people’s injuries and heals the wounds he inflicted.
He will settle disputes among the nations and provide arbitration for many peoples. They will beat their swords into ploughs and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not take up the sword against nation, and they will never again train for war.
Indeed, your husband is your Maker – his name is the Lord of Armies – and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.
I will bring them to my holy mountain and let them rejoice in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.’
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like cattle, but the serpent’s food will be dust! They will not do what is evil or destroy on my entire holy mountain,’ says the Lord.
They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,’ says the Lord, ‘just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
No longer will one teach his neighbour or his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin.
‘ “I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate dangerous creatures from the land, so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
Again he measured off five hundred and thirty metres, and it was a river that I could not cross on foot. For the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed on foot.
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will shatter bow, sword, and weapons of war in the land , and will enable the people to rest securely.
Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.
This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘When I restore their fortunes, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: “May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement, holy mountain.”
The Lord says this: ‘I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the Lord of Armies will be called the Holy Mountain.’