20 And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord – on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,’ says the Lord. ‘They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.
21 And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,’ says the Lord.
22 ‘As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,’ declares the Lord, ‘so will your name and descendants endure.
23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,’ says the Lord.
24 ‘And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.’Footnotes for the Book of Isaiaha 9 Or not raise them upb 16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshisha 10 Or a vineyard of four hectaresb 10 That is, about 22 litresc 10 That is, probably about 160 kilogramsd 10 That is, probably about 16 kilogramse 17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eata 2 Or has set up camp inb 3 Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.c 14 The Hebrew is plural.d 14 Or young womane 14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and theyf 14 Immanuel means God with us.g 23 That is, about 12 kilogramsa In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-21 is numbered 9:1-20.b 20 or arma 6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feedb 11 That is, the upper Nile regionc 11 Hebrew Shinard 13 Or hostilitya 6 Hebrew Shaddaib 19 Or Chaldeansa 9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2) sounds like the Hebrew for blood.a 8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asheraha 18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destructionb 24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blesseda 8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lionb 11 Dumah, a word play on Edom, means silence or stillness.a 2,3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys 3are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,b 10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go throughc 13 Or Chaldeansa 11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.a 8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.b 9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asheraha 2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.b 13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rulesa 2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.b 11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.a 9 That is, the upper Nile regionb 20 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:19); Masoretic Text you alone are the Lordc 25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have, in foreign lands.d 27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fieldsa 2 Or east, / whom victory meets at every stepa 2 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.a 1 Or are but beasts and cattlea 14 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 20a 19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can Ia 8 Or From arrestb 8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?c 10 Hebrew though you maked 11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.e 11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfiedf 11 Or by knowledge of himg 12 Or manyh 12 Or numerousa 9 Or to the kingb 9 Or idolsa 19 Or When enemies come in like a flood, / the Spirit of the Lord will put them to flighta 1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blinda 9 Or Saviour9in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved themb 11 Or But may he recallc 19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never calleda 20 Or the sinner who reaches