¹ But it shall be in the last days, that the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established on^◦ the head of the mountains, and it^◦ shall be lifted·​·up from the hills; and peoples shall flow·​·together to it.

² And many nations shall walk and say, Go, and let us go·​·up to^▵ the mountain of Jehovah, and to^▵ the house of the God of Jacob; and He will instruct us of His ways, and we will walk^◦ in His paths; for the law shall go·​·out from Zion, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

³ And He shall judge between many peoples, and reprove numerous nations afar·​·off; and they shall beat their swords into^◦ mattocks, and their spears into^◦ pruninghooks; nation shall not lift a sword against^▵ nation, and they shall not learn war any·​·more.

⁴ But they shall sit, a man^◦ under his vine and under his fig·​·tree, and none shall frighten them; for the mouth of Jehovah of Armies has spoken it.

⁵ For all the people will walk^◦ each·​·man^◦ in the name of his god, and we^◦ will walk^◦ in the name of Jehovah our god to eternity and forever.

⁶ In that^◦ day, says^◦ Jehovah, I will gather her who limps, and I will bring·​·together her who is expelled, and to whom I have done·​·evil.

⁷ And I will set her who limped to be left, and her who was driven beyond, for a numerous nation; and Jehovah shall reign over them in Mount Zion, from now and even·​·to eternity.

⁸ And thou^◦, O tower of the drove^*, the summit of the daughter of Zion, to^◦ thee shall it come^◦; and the rule of the first shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹ Now why dost thou shout with shouting? Is there no king in thee? Shall thy counselor perish? For thou art held·​·firm with travailing as a woman giving·​·birth.

¹⁰ Travail, and bring·​·out^◦, O daughter of Zion, as a woman giving·​·birth; for now shalt thou go·​·out from the city^◦, and thou shalt inhabit the field, and thou shalt come even to^◦ Babylon; there shalt thou be rescued; there Jehovah shall redeem thee from the palm of the hand of thine enemies.

¹¹ And now many nations are gathered against thee, who say, Let her be·​·contaminated, and let our eyes behold against^◦ Zion.

¹² But they^◦ know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they His counsel; for He shall bring· them ·together as the sheaves of the threshing·​·floor.

¹³ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will set thy horn as iron, and I will set thy hoofs as bronze, and thou shalt make·​·thin many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their belongings to the Lord of all the earth.

¹ The vision of Isaiah^◦ the son of Amoz, which he beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah^◦, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah^▫, kings of Judah.

² Hear, O ye heavens! And give·​·ear, O earth! For Jehovah speaks; I have caused sons to grow·​·up, and have lifted· them ·up; but they have transgressed against^◦ Me.

³ An ox knows his owner^*, and a donkey the crib of his master; Israel does· not ·know; My people do not understand.

⁴ Woe to the sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers for corrupt sons! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have disdained the Holy·​·One of Israel; they have become·​·strangers, turning away backward.

⁵ On· what ·account should you still be smitten? You again turn·​·aside. All the head is sick, and all the heart infirm.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even to^◦ the head there is no integrity in it; it is a wound, and a bruise, and a recent blow^◦; they have not been compressed, nor bound·​·up, nor softened with oil.

⁷ Your land is desolate; your cities are burnt·​·up with fire; your ground, strangers devour her before you; and it is desolate, as overturned by strangers.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion remains, as a shelter in a vineyard, as a place to pass·​·the·​·night among^◦ the cucumbers, as a city besieged.

⁹ Unless^▵ Jehovah of Armies had caused a few survivors to remain to us, we would have become as Sodom, we would have been·​·like Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear ye the Word of Jehovah, O ye captains of Sodom! Give·​·ear to the law of our God, O ye people of Gomorrah!

¹¹ For what is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah. I am·​·satiated with the burnt·​·offerings of rams, and with the fat of fatlings; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats, I delight not.

¹² When^◦ you come to see My face, who has sought this from your hands, to trample My courts?

¹³ Bring not again a vain gift·​·offering; as for incense, it^◦ is an abomination to Me; the new·​·moon^* and Sabbath, the convoking of the convocation, I am· not ·able to bear^*; it is iniquity^◦, even^▵ the day of restraint^*.

¹⁴ Your new·​·moons and your solemnities My soul hates; they are an encumbrance on Me; I am·​·weary of bearing them.

¹⁵ And when you spread the palms of your hands, I will hide^◦ My eyes from you; even when you multiply prayers, nothing will I^◦ hear; your hands are·​·full of bloods^*.

¹⁶ Bathe, purify^▵ yourselves; put·​·aside the evil of your actions from in·​·front·​·of My eyes; forbear to do·​·evil;

¹⁷ learn to do·​·good; inquire after judgment; make·​·happy the oppressed; judge for the orphan; plead for the widow.

¹⁸ Go now^◦, and let us dispute^*, says Jehovah; though your sins be as scarlet twice-dyed, they shall be·​·white as snow; though they be·​·red as crimson^*, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If you are·​·willing and hearken, you shall eat the goodness of the land;

²⁰ but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

²¹ How^◦ has the faithful city^◦ become a harlot! She who was full of judgment, justice lodged in her, but now murderers.

²² Thy silver has become dross; thine unmixed·​·wine is mixed^◦ with waters;

²³ thy princes are defiant and friends of thieves; everyone of them loves a bribe and pursues payments; they judge not for the orphan, and the plea of the widow comes not to them.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord says^◦, Jehovah of Armies, the Powerful·​·One of Israel, Woe! I will be comforted of My adversaries, and I will be avenged of My enemies;

²⁵ and I will return My hand over thee, and will refine, as with soap, thy dross; and I will remove all thy tin.

²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning; and after this thou^◦ shalt be called the City of Justice, the Faithful City^◦.

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed^◦ in judgment, and those returning with her in justice.

²⁸ And the breaking of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and they who forsake Jehovah shall all· be ·consumed.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired; and you shall blush for the gardens which you have chosen.

³⁰ For you shall be as an oak with its leaves fading, and as a garden for which there are no waters.

³¹ And the secure^◦ shall become as tow^*, and his work as a spark; and the two of them shall burn together, and none shall quench.