Isaiah 2

Chapter 2

God’s Universal Reign

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

²Now it will come about that

^aIn the last days

The ^bmountain of the house of the Lord

Will be established ¹as the chief of the mountains,

And will be raised above the hills;

And ^call 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 ¹concerning His ways

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For the ²law will go forth ^afrom Zion

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴And He will judge between the nations,

And will ¹render decisions for many peoples;

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

^bNation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

⁵Come, ^ahouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the ^blight of the Lord.

⁶For You have ^aabandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers ^blike the Philistines,

And they ^cstrike 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 ^ahorses

And there is no end to their chariots.

⁸Their land has also been ^afilled with idols;

They worship the ^bwork of their hands,

That which their fingers have made.

⁹So ^athe common man has been humbled

And the man of importance has been abased,

But ^bdo not forgive them.

^10aEnter the rock and hide in the dust

^bFrom the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.

¹¹The ^1aproud look of man will be abased

And the ^bloftiness 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 ^aeveryone 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 ^aoaks of Bashan,

¹⁴Against all the ^alofty mountains,

Against all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵Against every ^ahigh tower,

Against every fortified wall,

¹⁶Against all the ^aships 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 ^aidols will completely vanish.

¹⁹Men will ^ago into caves of the rocks

And into holes of the ¹ground

Before the terror of the Lord

And the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises ^bto make the earth tremble.

²⁰In that day men will ^acast away to the moles and the ^bbats

Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

Which they made for themselves to worship,

²¹In order to ^ago 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.

^221aStop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For ^2bwhy should he be esteemed?