Isaiah 2

God's Universal Reign

1The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2Now it will come about that

In the last days

The mountain of the house of the Lord

Will be established as the chief of the mountains,

And will be raised above the hills;

And all the nations will stream to it.

3And many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

That He may teach us concerning His ways

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For the law will go forth from Zion

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4And He will judge between the nations,

And will render decisions for many peoples;

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

Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

5Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,

And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

7Their land has also been filled with silver and gold

And there is no end to their treasures;

Their land has also been filled with horses

And there is no end to their chariots.

8Their land has also been filled with idols;

They worship the work of their hands,

That which their fingers have made.

9So the common man has been humbled

And the man of importance has been abased,

But do not forgive them.

10Enter the rock and hide in the dust

From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.

11The proud look of man will be abased

And the loftiness of man will be humbled,

And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

A Day of Reckoning Coming

12For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning

Against everyone who is proud and lofty

And against everyone who is lifted up,

That he may be abased.

13And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,

Against all the oaks of Bashan,

14Against all the lofty mountains,

Against all the hills that are lifted up,

15Against every high tower,

Against every fortified wall,

16Against all the ships of Tarshish

And against all the beautiful craft.

17The pride of man will be humbled

And the loftiness of men will be abased;

And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,

18But the idols will completely vanish.

19Men will go into caves of the rocks

And into holes of the ground

Before the terror of the Lord

And the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to make the earth tremble.

20In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats

Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

Which they made for themselves to worship,

21In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs

Before the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to make the earth tremble.

22Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For why should he be esteemed?