For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish;
    it will be utterly ruined.

13 “The glory of Lebanon will come to you,
    the juniper, the fir and the cypress together,
to adorn my sanctuary;
    and I will glorify the place for my feet.
14 The children of your oppressors will come bowing before you;
    all who despise you will bow down at your feet
and will call you the City of the Lord,
    Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

In being wide open to all who will come, the Kingdom of God has nothing to fear. It will ultimately be victorious.

Barry Webb says the first thing the vision in chapter 60 affirms ‘…is that the kingdom of God will conquer all other kingdoms. Nations and kings will come to Zion, not to conquer it, but to acknowledge that the God who has chosen to reveal himself there is the only God, and to submit to him (3,14). Those who refuse to do so will perish (12)…The power of human kingdoms will fail, and the kings of the earth will amass their wealth only to lay it down one day at the feet of the king of kings (5).’ ‘Isaiah’, p.232.

Note the image of conquest in (12b): ”…kings led in triumphal procession”.

‘The apparent imperialism of the passage only expresses the sober truth that to reject God’s sway is suicide (12), and that the meek will inherit the earth.’ Derek Kidner: ‘New Bible Commentary’, p.667.

What a vision Paul paints of this ultimate triumph in Philippians 2:9-11:

”Therefore God exalted him to the highest place    and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

In spite of all appearances to the contrary, at times, God is in control, Jesus is the King of the whole universe, and we in the church are on the winning team.