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Isaiah 2

World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible

2:1
This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2:2
It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
2:3
Many peoples shall go and say,
And 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 so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
2:4
He will judge between the nations,
Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
2:5
House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the LORD.
Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
2:6
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
2:7
Their land is full of silver and gold,
Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
2:8
Their land also is full of idols.
Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
2:9
Man is brought low,
So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!
2:10
Enter into the rock,
Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.
2:11
The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
2:12
For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,
For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—
2:13
for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14
for all the high mountains,
against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,
2:15
for every lofty tower,
against every high tower, against every fortified wall,
2:16
for all the ships of Tarshish,
against every ship of Tarshish (note: Or every ship of trade), and against every stately vessel.
2:17
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
2:18
The idols shall utterly pass away.
and the idols will vanish completely.
2:19
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
2:20
In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver
In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
2:21
to go into the caverns of the rocks,
They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
2:22
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?