Isaiah 2

₂It shall come to pass in the latter days

that the mountain of the house of the Lord

shall be established as the highest of the mountains,

and shall be lifted up above the hills;

and all the nations shall flow to it,

₃and many peoples shall come, and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob,

that he may teach us his ways

and that we may walk in his paths.”

For out of Zion shall go the law,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

₄He shall judge between the nations,

and shall decide disputes for many peoples;

and 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 anymore.

₅O house of Jacob,

come, let us walk

in the light of the Lord.

₆For you have rejected your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of things from the east

and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,

and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

₇Their land is filled with silver and gold,

and there is no end to their treasures;

their land is filled with horses,

and there is no end to their chariots.

₈Their land is filled with idols;

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their own fingers have made.

₉So man is humbled,

and each one is brought low—

do not forgive them!

₁₀Enter into the rock

and hide in the dust

from before the terror of the Lord,

and from the splendor of his majesty.

₁₁The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,

and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,

and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

₁₂For the Lord of hosts has a day

against all that is proud and lofty,

against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

₁₃against all the cedars of Lebanon,

lofty and lifted up;

and against all the oaks of Bashan;

₁₄against all the lofty mountains,

and against all the uplifted hills;

₁₅against every high tower,

and against every fortified wall;

₁₆against all the ships of Tarshish,

and against all the beautiful craft.

₁₇And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,

and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,

and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

₁₈And the idols shall utterly pass away.

₁₉And people shall enter the caves of the rocks

and the holes of the ground,

from before the terror of the Lord,

and from the splendor of his majesty,

when he rises to terrify the earth.

₂₀In that day mankind will cast away

their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

which they made for themselves to worship,

to the moles and to the bats,

₂₁to enter the caverns of the rocks

and the clefts of the cliffs,

from before the terror of the Lord,

and from the splendor of his majesty,

when he rises to terrify the earth.

₂₂Stop regarding man

in whose nostrils is breath,

for of what account is he?