Yahweh’s future rule

4 Yahweh says that some day his temple will be on top of a mountain,

and that mountain will be the most important [MET] one on the earth;

it will be as though it is higher than all the hills,

and huge groups of people from all over the world will come there to worship.

2 People from many nations will say to each other,

“Let’s go to the mountain where Yahweh is,

to the temple where we can worship the God whom Jacob worshiped.

There God will teach us how he wants us to conduct our lives,

and we will do what he wants us to do.”

Zion Hill is the place where he will teach people;

and people will go out from Jerusalem to tell others his messages.

3 Yahweh will settle disputes between many people,

and he will also settle disputes between powerful nations that are far away.

Then people will hammer their swords to cause them to become plow blades,

and hammer their spears to cause them to become pruning knives.

Armies of nations will no longer fight against armies of other nations,

and they will no longer train men how to fight in wars.

4 Everyone will sit peacefully under his own grapevines,

and under his own fig trees;

no one will cause them to be afraid.

That is what will surely happen because the Commander of the armies of angels has said it.

5 Many [HYP] of the people of other nations will worship [IDM] their own gods,

but we will worship Yahweh our God always, forever.