The Future House of God
2 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.(A)
2 In days to come
the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains
and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it.(B)
3 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 forth instruction
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(C)
4 He shall judge between the nations
and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
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 any more.(D)
5 O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the Lord!(E)
Judgment Pronounced on Arrogance
6 You have forsaken your people,
the house of Jacob,
for they are full of diviners[a] from the East
and of soothsayers like the Philistines,
and they clasp hands with foreigners.(F)
7 Their 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.(G)
8 Their land is filled with idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.(H)
9 And so people are humbled,
and everyone is brought low—
[[do not forgive them!(I)
10 Enter into the rock,
and hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord
and from the glory of his majesty.]][b](J)
11 The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low,
and the pride of everyone shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.(K)
12 For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up and high;[c](L)
13 against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the oaks of Bashan;(M)
14 against all the high mountains
and against all the lofty hills;(N)
15 against every high tower
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all the ships of Tarshish
and against all the highly prized vessels.(O)
17 The haughtiness of people shall be humbled,
and the pride of everyone shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.(P)
18 The idols shall utterly pass away.(Q)
19 Enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,
from the terror of the Lord
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.(R)
20 On that day people will throw away
to the moles and to the bats
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,(S)
21 to enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts in the crags,
from the terror of the Lord
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.(T)
22 [[Turn away from mortals,
who have only breath in their nostrils,
for of what account are they?]][d](U)
Footnotes
- 2.6Cn: Heb lacks of diviners
- 2.9–10Q ms lacks do not forgive . . . majesty
- 2.12Cn Compare Gk: Heb low
- 2.22Gk OL lack 2.22
Cross references
- 2.1 : Isa 1.1
- 2.2 : Isa 27.13; 56.7; 66.20; Mic 4.1–3
- 2.3 : Isa 55.5; 66.18; Zech 8.20–23; Lk 24.47
- 2.4 : Isa 32.17, 18; Hos 2.18
- 2.5 : Isa 58.1; 60.1, 2, 19
- 2.6 : Deut 31.17; 2 Kings 16.7, 8
- 2.7 : Deut 17.16
- 2.8 : Isa 10.11; 17.8
- 2.9 : Neh 4.5; Isa 5.15
- 2.10 : 2 Thess 1.9; Rev 6.15
- 2.11 : Isa 13.11; Zech 9.16
- 2.12 : Isa 24.4, 21
- 2.13 : Isa 10.33, 34; Zech 11.2
- 2.14 : Isa 30.25
- 2.16 : 1 Kings 10.22
- 2.17 : v 11
- 2.18 : Isa 21.9
- 2.19 : Hos 10.8; 2 Thess 1.9; Heb 12.26; Rev 9.6
- 2.20 : Isa 30.22
- 2.21 : vv 10, 19
- 2.22 : Job 27.3; Ps 146.3; Jas 4.14