Isaiah 2:1-22

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’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

So that He may teach us about His ways,

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For the law will go out from Zion

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4And He will judge between the nations,

And will mediate for many peoples;

And they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives.

Nation will not lift up a sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

5Come, house of Jacob, and let’s 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.

They also 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 person has been humbled

And the person of importance has been brought low,

But do not forgive them.

10Enter the rocky place and hide in the dust

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

11The proud look of humanity will be brought low,

And the arrogance of people will be humbled;

And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

A Day of Reckoning Coming

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

Against everyone who is arrogant and haughty,

And against everyone who is lifted up,

That he may be brought low.

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 delightful ships.

17And the pride of humanity will be humbled

And the arrogance of people will be brought low;

And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day,

18And the idols will completely vanish.

19People will go into caves of the rocks

And into holes in the ground

Away from the terror of the Lord

And the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to terrify the earth.

20On that day people will throw 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 clefts of the rocks and the crannies of the cliffs

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

When He arises to terrify the earth.

22Take no account of man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For why should he be esteemed?