Isaiah 2

Isaiah

2 ¹The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. ²And it will come to pass in the last days, [when][1] the mountain of the LORD’s House

will be established at the top of the mountains[2],
and it will be elevated above the hills,

then all nations will flow like a river[3] to it.
³And many peoples will come and say,

God’s covenant people

“Come,
and let us go up[4]

to the mountain of the LORD,
to the House of the God of Jacob,

that He may teach[5] us of His ways
and that we may walk in His paths;

because from Zion the law will go forth,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”

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⁴And He will judge among the nations,
and He will settle the case for many peoples.

And they will hammer their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.

And nation will not lift up a sword against nation,
nor will they learn war again.

⁵O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
[Yea, come, for you have all gone astray, everyone to his wicked ways.][6]

Isaiah

⁶Surely, [O Lord][7], You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
because they are filled from the east

and [hearken unto] soothsayers like the Philistines,
and they clap hands[8] with foreigners.

⁷Their land is full of silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures.

Their land is full of horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.

⁸And their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
that which their fingers have made.

⁹And the human has [not] bowed down,
and man has [not] been brought down; do not forgive [him].

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¹⁰[O you wicked ones,][9] enter into the rock, and hide in the dust;
because the fear of the LORD and His majesty [will smite you].

¹¹[And it will come to pass that][10] the eyes of the arrogant human will become low,
and the highness of [man][11] will bow down,

and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²For the day of the LORD of Hosts [soon comes upon all nations][12];

[yea, upon everyone;
yea,] upon the proud and lifted up,

and upon everyone who is arrogant;
but such will be brought low.

¹³[Yea, and the day of the LORD will come][13] upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
[for they][14] are high and elevated, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴and upon all the high mountains,
and upon all the hills

[and upon all the nations that][15] are elevated,
[and upon every people][16].

¹⁵And upon every tall tower,
and upon every fortified wall,

¹⁶[and upon all the ships of the sea,][17]
and upon all the ships of Tarshish,
and upon all luxury ships.

¹⁷And the loftiness of the human will bow down,
and the height of men will be made low,

and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

¹⁸And the idols will completely disappear.

¹⁹And {people} will come into the caves of the rocks
and into the caverns of the ground,

for the fear of the LORD [will come upon them,][18]
and the glory of His majesty [will smite them]
when He arises to cause the earth to tremble.

²⁰In that day the human will cast away his idols of silver
and his idols of gold, which he has made for himself to worship,

to the moles
and to the bats[19],

²¹to come into the crevices of the rocks
and into the clefts of the cliffs,

for fear of the LORD [will come upon them][20],
and the majesty [of the Lord will smite them] when He arises to cause the earth to tremble.

²²Cease from the human, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for does he merit esteem?