Chapter 2
1 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem .
2 It shall happen in the latter days , that the mountain of the LORD ’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 .
3 Many peoples shall go and say , " Come , let ’s go up to the mountain of the LORD , 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 the LORD ’s word from Jerusalem .
4 He will judge between the nations , and will decide concerning many peoples . They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks . Nation shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more .
5 House of Jacob , come , and let ’s walk in the light of the LORD .
6 For you have forsaken your people , the house of Jacob , because they are filled from the east , with those who practise divination like the Philistines , and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners .
7 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 .
8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands , that which their own fingers have made .
9 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 the LORD , 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 the LORD alone will be exalted in that day .
12 For there will be a day of the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD , 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 the LORD , 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 ?