A message about future peace in Judah

2 This is the message that Yahweh showed me in a vision, concerning Jerusalem and the rest of Judea:

2 I saw that in the future, the hill on which Yahweh’s temple is built

will be the most important place on the earth;

it will be as though it is the highest mountain,

as though it has been raised up above all other hills;

and people from all over the world will come there.

3 People from many people-groups will say to each other,

“Come, let’s go up to the hill,

to the temple of Yahweh,

to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped.

There Yahweh will teach us what he desires us to know,

in order that our behavior will please him.

His teaching will be given to us in Jerusalem,

and we will take his message from Jerusalem to other places/nations.

4 Yahweh will listen to the disputes between nations

and he will settle their arguments.

Then, instead of fighting against each other, they will hammer their swords into plow blades,

and they will hammer their spears into pruning knives.

The armies of nations will no longer fight against each other,

and they will not even train men to fight in battles/wars.”

5 You Israeli people,

let’s walk in the light [MET] that comes from Yahweh!