Isaiah 2

1 This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.

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

2 In the last days the mountain where the Lord's Temple stands will be recognized as the highest of all mountains, rising above other hills. Many from the other nations will travel to it.

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 People will come and say, “Let's go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob. There God will teach us his ways and we will follow his directions. God's teachings will spread out from Zion, his word from Jerusalem.”

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 The Lord will decide the cases of the nations; he will settle arguments between nations. They will hammer their swords and turn them into plough blades, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not fight against each other anymore; they will no longer learn methods of warfare.

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 Come, you Israelites, let's walk in the Lord's light.

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the LORD.

6 For you, Lord, have given up on your people the Israelites, because they have adopted pagan practices from the East, they use spells like the Philistines, and make friends with foreigners.

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 country is full of silver and gold, and endless wealth. Their land is full of horses; and they have an endless amount of chariots.

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 country is full of idols; they bow down and worship what they have made themselves—produced by their own hands!

Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

9 These people will be brought down and humiliated—Lord, don't forgive them!

Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.

10 Run away into rock caves, hide underground from the terrifying presence of the Lord, from the glory of his majesty.

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.

11 Those who look with arrogance will be brought low; those who are proud will be humbled. On that day only the Lord will be lifted high.

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 The Lord has set aside a day when he will deal with the proud and arrogant. He will end all self-glorification, bringing it down.

For there will be a day of the LORD of Hosts for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low—

13 He will cut down the cedars of Lebanon, tall and high, and all the great oaks of Bashan,

for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

14 He will bring down the tall mountains and the high hills.

for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

15 He will tear down every high tower and every defensive wall.

for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

16 He will wipe out all the commercial ships of Tarshish as well as the pleasure vessels.

for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

17 The arrogant will be humbled; the proud will be brought low. On that day only the Lord will be lifted high.

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 Idols will completely vanish away.

The idols shall utterly pass away.

19 People will run away into rock caves and holes in the ground to try and hide from the terrifying presence of the Lord, from the glory of his majesty, when he arrives to shake the earth.

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 On that day the people will take the idols of silver and gold that they made to worship and throw them away to the rats and the bats.

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 They will run to cracks in the rocks and gaps on the cliffs to try and hide from the terrifying presence of the Lord, from the glory of his majesty, when he arrives to shake the earth.

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 Don't bother trusting human beings who only live for a while. How much do they count?

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?