8. A nursing child will play over the snake’s hole;toddlers will reach right over the serpent’s den.
9. They won’t harm or destroy anywhere on my holy mountain.The earth will surely be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, just as the water covers the sea.
10. On that day, the root of Jesse will stand as a signal to the peoples. The nations will seek him out, and his dwelling will be glorious.
11. On that day, the Lord will extend his hand a second time to reclaim the survivors of God’s people who are left from Assyria and from Egypt, from Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
12. God will raise a signal for the nations and gather the outcast men of Israel.God will collect the dispersed women of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13. Ephraim’s jealousy will cease,and Judah’s harassment will be eliminated.Ephraim won’t be jealous of Judah,and Judah won’t harass Ephraim.
14. But they will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west;together they will plunder the people to the east.Edom and Moab will be under their power,and the Ammonites will be their subjects.
15. The Lord will split the tongue of the Egyptian sea. God will wave a hand over the Euphrates with a powerful wind and break it into seven streams so that it can be crossed in sandals.
16. Then there will be a highway from Assyria for the survivors of God’s people who are left from Assyria, just as there was for Israel on the day they went up from the land of Egypt.