Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘Look, your deliverer comes! Look, his reward is with him and his reward goes before him!’”

Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

At that time you will say: “Praise the Lord! Ask him for help! Publicize his mighty acts among the nations! Make it known that he is unique!

Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations!

Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking: “Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

the deep waters! Grain from the Shihor region, crops grown near the Nile she receives; she is the trade center of the nations.

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the Lord, I have no peer.

You said, ‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.

You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

In the future the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

At that time a root from Jesse will stand like a signal flag for the nations. Nations will look to him for guidance, and his residence will be majestic.

The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine – tender meat and choicest wine.