<p class="poetry">All the nations are insignificant before him;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as absolutely nothing.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;p> <p class="poetry">my hand is ready to strike all the nations.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">In the future<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the mountain of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple will endure<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">as the most important of mountains,p> <p class="poetry">and will be the most prominent of hills.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">All the nations will stream to it,p>

<p class="poetry">On this mountain he will swallow upp> <p class="poetry">the shroud that is over all the peoples,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the woven covering that is over all the nations;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">It will be like a dream, a night vision.p> <p class="poetry">There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel,p> <p class="poetry">those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her.p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> is angry at all the nationsp> <p class="poetry">and furious with all their armies.p> <p class="poetry">He will annihilate them and slaughter them.p>

Hezekiah is misleading you when he says, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will rescue us.&#8221; Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?<n id="1" />

Were the nations whom my predecessors<n id="1" /> destroyed &#8211; the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar &#8211; rescued by their gods?<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">All nations gather together,p> <p class="poetry">the peoples assemble.p> <p class="poetry">Who among them announced this?p> <p class="poetry">Who predicted earlier events for us?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right;p> <p class="poetry">let them listen and affirm, &#8216;It is true.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Gather together and come!p> <p class="poetry">Approach together, you refugees from the nations!p> <p class="poetry">Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,p> <p class="poetry">those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> reveals<n id="1" /> his royal power<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in the sight of all the nations;p> <p class="poetry">the entire<n id="3" /> earth seesp> <p class="poetry">our God deliver.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For just as the ground produces its cropsp> <p class="poetry">and a garden yields its produce,p> <p class="poetry">so the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> will cause deliverance<n id="1" /> to grow,p> <p class="poetry">and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming<n id="1" /> to gather all the nations and ethnic groups;<n id="2" /> they will come and witness my splendor.

<p class="poetry">He will judge disputes between nations;p> <p class="poetry">he will settle cases for many peoples.p> <p class="poetry">They will beat their swords into plowshares,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears into pruning hooks.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,p> <p class="poetry">and they will no longer train for war.p>

<v id="(8:23)" /><n id="1" /> The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">In earlier times he<n id="3" /> humiliatedp> <p class="poetry">the land of Zebulun,p> <p class="poetry">and the land of Naphtali;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">but now he brings honor<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">to the way of the sea,p> <p class="poetry">the region beyond the Jordan,p> <p class="poetry">and Galilee of the nations.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating,p> <p class="poetry">only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking,p> <p class="poetry">only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So it will be for the horde from all the nationsp> <p class="poetry">that fight against Mount Zion.p>

I will perform a mighty act among them<n id="1" /> and then send some of those who remain to the nations &#8211; to Tarshish, Pul,<n id="2" /> Lud<n id="3" /> (known for its archers<n id="4" />), Tubal, Javan,<n id="5" /> and to the distant coastlands<n id="6" /> that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.

They will bring back all your countrymen<n id="1" /> from all the nations as an offering to the <sc>Lordsc>. They will bring them<n id="2" /> on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels<n id="3" /> to my holy hill Jerusalem,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;just as the Israelites bring offerings to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple in ritually pure containers.