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1 This
is what Isaiah
the son of Amoz
saw concerning
Judah and
Jerusalem.
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,
and shall be
raised above the
hills;
and all nations
shall flow to
it.
3 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 He
will judge between
the nations,
and will decide
concerning 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.
5 House
of Jacob, come,
and let’s walk
in the light of
the LORD.
6 For
you have forsaken
your people, the
house of Jacob,
because they are
filled from the
east,
with those who
practice divination like
the Philistines,
and they clasp hands
with the children
of foreigners.
7 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 land
also is full
of idols.
They worship the
work of their
own hands,
that which their
own fingers have
made.
9 Man is
brought low,
and mankind is humbled;
therefore don’t forgive them.
10 Enter into
the rock,
and hide in
the dust,
from before the
terror of the
LORD,
and from the
glory of his
majesty.
11 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 For
there will be
a day of
the LORD of
Armies for all
that is proud
and arrogant,
and for all
that is lifted
up,
and it shall
be brought low—
13 for
all the cedars of
Lebanon, that are
high and lifted
up,
for all the oaks
of Bashan,
14 for
all the high
mountains,
for all the
hills that are
lifted up,
15 for
every lofty tower,
for every
fortified wall,
16 for
all the ships
of Tarshish,
and for all
pleasant imagery.
17 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 The idols
shall utterly pass
away.
19 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 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 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 Stop
trusting in man, whose
breath is in
his nostrils;
for of what
account is he?