Isaiah 2

The Mountain of the Lord

2:1–4pp—Mic 4:1–3

2This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:^f

²In the last days^g

the mountain^h of the Lord’s temple will be established

as the highest of the mountains;ⁱ

it will be exalted^j above the hills,

and all nations will stream to it.^k

³Many peoples^l will come and say,

“Come, let us go^m up to the mountainⁿ of the Lord,

to the temple of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us his ways,

so that we may walk in his paths.”

The law^o will go out from Zion,

the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.^p

⁴He will judge^q between the nations

and will settle disputes^r for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.^s

Nation will not take up sword against nation,^t

nor will they train for war anymore.

⁵Come, descendants of Jacob,^u

let us walk in the light^v of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

⁶You, Lord, have abandoned^w your people,

the descendants of Jacob.^x

They are full of superstitions from the East;

they practice divination^y like the Philistines^z

and embrace^a pagan customs.^b

⁷Their land is full of silver and gold;^c

there is no end to their treasures.^d

Their land is full of horses;^e

there is no end to their chariots.^f

⁸Their land is full of idols;^g

they bow down^h to the work of their hands,ⁱ

to what their fingers^j have made.

⁹So people will be brought low^k

and everyone humbled^l—

do not forgive them.^am

¹⁰Go into the rocks, hideⁿ in the ground

from the fearful presence of the Lord

and the splendor of his majesty!^o

¹¹The eyes of the arrogant^p will be humbled^q

and human pride^r brought low;^s

the Lord alone will be exalted^t in that day.^u

¹²The Lord Almighty has a day^v in store

for all the proud^w and lofty,^x

for all that is exalted^y

(and they will be humbled),^z

¹³for all the cedars of Lebanon,^a tall and lofty,^b

and all the oaks of Bashan,^c

¹⁴for all the towering mountains

and all the high hills,^d

¹⁵for every lofty tower^e

and every fortified wall,^f

¹⁶for every trading ship^bg

and every stately vessel.

¹⁷The arrogance of man will be brought low^h

and human pride humbled;ⁱ

the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,^j

¹⁸and the idols^k will totally disappear.^l

¹⁹People will flee to caves^m in the rocks

and to holes in the groundⁿ

from the fearful presence^o of the Lord

and the splendor of his majesty,^p

when he rises to shake the earth.^q

²⁰In that day^r people will throw away

to the moles and bats^s

their idols of silver and idols of gold,^t

which they made to worship.^u

²¹They will flee to caverns in the rocks^v

and to the overhanging crags

from the fearful presence of the Lord

and the splendor of his majesty,^w

when he rises^x to shake the earth.^y

²²Stop trusting in mere humans,^z

who have but a breath^a in their nostrils.

Why hold them in esteem?^b