Isaiah 2
In the last days, the Lord's house will be exalted above all mountains and nations will flow to it to learn from God. The Lord will judge the nations, and they will turn their instruments of war into tools for peace. However, the house of Jacob has been cast aside due to their idolatry and reliance on foreign powers. The Lord will prevail over the proud and arrogant, and idols will be crushed as people seek refuge from God's majesty.
1The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem2And in the last days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be prepared at the summit of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills, and all the nations shall flow to it3And many peoples will go, and they will say: "Let us approach and ascend to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For the law will go forth from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem4And he will judge the nations, and he will rebuke many peoples. And they shall forge their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they continue to train for battle5O house of Jacob, let us approach and walk in the light of the Lord6For you have cast aside your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled up, as in past times, and because they have had soothsayers as the Philistines have, and because they have joined themselves to foreign servants7Their land has been filled with silver and gold. And there is no end to their storehouses8And their land has been filled with horses. And their four-horse chariots are innumerable. And their land has been filled with idols. They have adored the work of their hands, which their own fingers have made9And man has bowed himself down, and so man has become debased. Therefore, you should not forgive them10Enter into the rock, and hide in a ditch in the soil, from the presence of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty11The lofty eyes of man have been humbled, and the haughtiness of men will be bowed down. Then the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day12For the day of the Lord of hosts will prevail over all the proud and self-exalted, and over all the arrogant, and each one shall be humbled13and over all the straight and tall cedars of Lebanon, and over all the oaks of Bashan14and over all the lofty mountains, and over all the elevated hills15and over every lofty tower, and over every fortified wall16and over all the ships of Tarshish, and over all the beauty that may be seen17And the loftiness of men will be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men will be brought low. And the Lord alone shall be exalted, in that day18And idols will be thoroughly crushed19And they will go into the caves of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, from the presence of the dread of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he will have risen up to strike the earth20In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats21And so he will go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of stone, from the presence of the dread of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he will have risen up to strike the earth22Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted
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