Isaiah 2
1 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 In the last days, the mountain of the house of the LORD will be firmly established above the mountains, raised higher than the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
3 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. He will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For instruction will go out from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations and settle disputes for many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not raise the sword against nation, and they will never again learn war.
5 House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD!
6 For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of customs from the East, practice divination like the Philistines, and make deals with the children of foreigners.
7 His land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to his treasures. His land is full of horses, and there is no end to his chariots.
8 His land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their own fingers have made.
9 So humanity is brought low, and each man is humbled; do not forgive them.
10 Enter the rock, hide in the dust, before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty.
11 The proud eyes of humanity will be brought low, and the arrogance of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.
12 For the LORD of Armies has a day against everyone proud and lofty, against everyone who exalts himself—and he will be brought low.
13 Against all the lofty, towering cedars of Lebanon, and against all the oaks of Bashan;
14 Against all the high mountains and all the lofty hills;
15 Against every tall tower and every fortified wall;
16 Against all the ships of Tarshish and all that is beautiful to behold.
17 The pride of humanity will be humbled, and the arrogance of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.
18 And the idols will disappear completely.
19 People will enter the caves in the rocks and the holes in the ground, before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
20 On that day, people will throw away their silver idols and their gold idols, which they made for themselves to bow down to. They will cast them to the moles and the bats.
21 They will enter the crevices in the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
22 Stop relying on human beings, who have only breath in their nostrils. After all, what are they worth?
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