The Mountain of the Lord
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 house of the Lord
shall be established on the top of the mountains
and shall be raised above the hills,
and all nations shall stream to it.
3 Many peoples shall go and say,
“Come, let us 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 word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
nor shall they study war any more.
5 House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The Day of Reckoning
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 descendants of foreigners.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
and there is no end to 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 do not 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 humbled,
the arrogance of men will be brought down,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12 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 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 brought down,
and the arrogance of men shall be humbled,
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?