many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards." For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.