Isaiah 2

THE CITY OF PEACE

2The vision that Isaiah^t son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

²In^u the last days^v

the mountain of the Lord’s house^w will be established

at the top of the mountains

and will be raised above the hills.

All nations will stream to it,^x

³and many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob.^y

He will teach us about his ways

so that we may walk in his paths.”

For instruction will go out of Zion

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴He will settle disputes among the nations

and provide arbitration for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into plows

and their spears into pruning knives.^z

Nation will not take up the sword against nation,

and they will never again train for war.^aa

THE DAY OF THE LORD

⁵House of Jacob,

come and let’s walk in the Lord’s light.^ab

⁶For you have abandoned^ac your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of divination from the East

and of fortune-tellers^a like the Philistines.^b

They are in league^B with foreigners.

⁷Their^CD land is full of silver and gold,

and there is no limit to their treasures;

their land is full of horses,

and there is no limit to their chariots.^c

⁸Their land is full of worthless idols;^d

they worship the work of their hands,

what their fingers have made.^e

⁹So humanity is brought low,

and each person is humbled.

Do not forgive them!^f

¹⁰Go into the rocks^g

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the Lord^h

and from his majestic splendor.ⁱ

¹¹The pride of mankind^A will be humbled,^j

and human loftiness will be brought low;

the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

¹²For a day belonging to the Lord of Armies is coming

against all that is proud and lofty,^k

against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—

¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon,^l

lofty and lifted up,

against all the oaks of Bashan,^m

¹⁴against all the high mountains,ⁿ

against all the lofty hills,

¹⁵against every high tower,^o

against every fortified wall,

¹⁶against every ship of Tarshish,^p

and against every splendid sea vessel.

¹⁷The pride of mankind will be brought low,

and human loftiness will be humbled;

the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.^q

¹⁸The worthless idols will vanish completely.

¹⁹People will go into caves in the rocks^r

and holes in the ground,

away from the terror of the Lord

and from his majestic splendor,

when he rises to terrify the earth.^s

²⁰On that day people will throw

their worthless idols of silver and gold,^t

which they made to worship,

to the moles and the bats.

²¹They will go into the caves of the rocks

and the crevices in the cliffs,

away from the terror of the Lord

and from his majestic splendor,^u

when he rises to terrify the earth.

²²Put no more trust in a mere human,

who has only the breath in his nostrils.^v

What is he really worth?