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This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
    and shall be raised above the hills;
    and all nations shall flow to it.
Many peoples shall go and say,
    “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
    to the house of the God of Jacob;
    and he will teach us of his ways,
    and we will walk in his paths.”
For the law shall go out of Zion,
    and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
He will judge between the nations,
    and will decide concerning many peoples.
    They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war any more.

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
    because they are filled from the east,
    with those who practice divination like the Philistines,
    and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
Their land is full of silver and gold,
    neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
    neither is there any end of their chariots.
Their land also is full of idols.
    They worship the work of their own hands,
    that which their own fingers have made.
Man is brought low,
    and mankind is humbled;
    therefore don’t forgive them.
10 Enter into the rock,
    and hide in the dust,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
    and from the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
    the arrogance of men will be bowed down,
    and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,
    and for all that is lifted up;
    and it shall be brought low:
13     for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
    for all the oaks of Bashan,
14     for all the high mountains,
    for all the hills that are lifted up,
15     for every lofty tower,
    for every fortified wall,
16     for all the ships of Tarshish,
    and for all pleasant imagery.
17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
    and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;
    and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 The idols shall utterly pass away.
19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
    and into the holes of the earth,
    from before the terror of Yahweh,
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver
    and their idols of gold,
    which have been made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the bats,
21     to go into the caverns of the rocks,
    and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
    from before the terror of Yahweh,
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
    for of what account is he?

The Lord’s Future Reign

This is a vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house
    will be the highest of all—
    the most important place on earth.
It will be raised above the other hills,
    and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.
People from many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of Jacob’s God.
There he will teach us his ways,
    and we will walk in his paths.”
For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion;
    his word will go out from Jerusalem.
The Lord will mediate between nations
    and will settle international disputes.
They will hammer their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer fight against nation,
    nor train for war anymore.

A Warning of Judgment

Come, descendants of Jacob,
    let us walk in the light of the Lord!
For the Lord has rejected his people,
    the descendants of Jacob,
because they have filled their land with practices from the East
    and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do.
    They have made alliances with pagans.
Israel is full of silver and gold;
    there is no end to its treasures.
Their land is full of warhorses;
    there is no end to its chariots.
Their land is full of idols;
    the people worship things they have made
    with their own hands.
So now they will be humbled,
    and all will be brought low—
    do not forgive them.
10 Crawl into caves in the rocks.
    Hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord
    and the glory of his majesty.
11 Human pride will be brought down,
    and human arrogance will be humbled.
Only the Lord will be exalted
    on that day of judgment.

12 For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
    has a day of reckoning.
He will punish the proud and mighty
    and bring down everything that is exalted.
13 He will cut down the tall cedars of Lebanon
    and all the mighty oaks of Bashan.
14 He will level all the high mountains
    and all the lofty hills.
15 He will break down every high tower
    and every fortified wall.
16 He will destroy all the great trading ships[a]
    and every magnificent vessel.
17 Human pride will be humbled,
    and human arrogance will be brought down.
Only the Lord will be exalted
    on that day of judgment.

18 Idols will completely disappear.
19 When the Lord rises to shake the earth,
    his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground.
They will hide in caves in the rocks
    from the terror of the Lord
    and the glory of his majesty.
20 On that day of judgment they will abandon the gold and silver idols
    they made for themselves to worship.
They will leave their gods to the rodents and bats,
21     while they crawl away into caverns
    and hide among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
They will try to escape the terror of the Lord
    and the glory of his majesty
    as he rises to shake the earth.
22 Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
    They are as frail as breath.
    What good are they?

Footnotes

  1. 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish.