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He will judge between the nations,
    and will render verdicts[a] for the benefit of many.[b]

“They will beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nations will not raise swords against nations,
    and they will not learn warfare anymore.

“You house of Jacob!

Come! Let’s live[c] in the Lord’s light.

For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are filled with practices learned[d] from the East
and they are fortune-tellers like the Philistines.
They cut deals[e] with foreigners.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:4 Or judgment
  2. Isaiah 2:4 Lit. many peoples
  3. Isaiah 2:5 Lit. walk
  4. Isaiah 2:6 1QIsaa MT lack with practices learned
  5. Isaiah 2:6 Lit. They shake hands
  6. Isaiah 2:6 Lit. with descendants of foreigners