Isaiah 2

The City of Peace

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

²In ^qthe last days ^r

the mountain of the Lord’s house ^swill be established

at the top of the mountains

and will be raised above the hills.

All nations will stream to it, ^t

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. ^u

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 turn their swords into plows

and their spears into pruning knives. ^v

Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,

and they will never again train for war. ^w

The Day of the Lord

⁵House of Jacob,

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

⁶For You have abandoned ^yYour people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of divination from the East

and of fortune-tellers ^zlike the Philistines. ^a

They are in league ^bwith foreigners.

⁷Their ^cdland 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. ^e

⁸Their land is full of idols; ^f

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their fingers have made. ^g

⁹So humanity is brought low,

and man is humbled.

Do not forgive them! ^h

¹⁰Go into the rocks ⁱ

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the Lord ^j

and from His majestic splendor. ^k

¹¹Human pride ^lwill be humbled, ^m

and the loftiness of men will be brought low;

the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

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

against all that is proud and lofty, ⁿ

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

¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon, ^o

lofty and lifted up,

against all the oaks of Bashan, ^p

¹⁴against all the high mountains, ^q

against all the lofty hills,

¹⁵against every high tower, ^r

against every fortified wall,

¹⁶against every ship of Tarshish, ^s

and against every splendid sea vessel.

¹⁷So human pride will be brought low,

and the loftiness of men will be humbled;

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

¹⁸The idols will vanish completely.

¹⁹People will go into caves in the rocks ^u

and holes in the ground,

away from the terror of the Lord

and from His majestic splendor,

when He rises to terrify the earth. ^v

²⁰On that day people will throw

their silver and gold idols, ^w

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, ^x

when He rises to terrify the earth.

²²Put no more trust in man,

who has only the breath in his nostrils. ^y

What is he really worth?