³ May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!

¹⁹ That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.

²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹⁸ Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

¹³ And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.

¹⁴ I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁶ Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.

¹⁷ And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.

⁸ Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,

⁹ Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.

¹¹ Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

¹² Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

¹³ Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

¹⁰ Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

¹¹ Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

¹⁶ May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

¹² Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.