2:1 | Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem* that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.* |
2:2 | In the future* the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure* as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills.* All the nations will stream to it, |
2:3 | many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so* he can teach us his requirements,* and* we can follow his standards.”* For Zion will be the center for moral instruction;* the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.* |
2:4 | He will judge disputes between nations; he will settle cases for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares,* and their spears into pruning hooks.* Nations will not take up the sword against other nations, and they will no longer train for war. |
2:5 | O descendants* of Jacob, come, let us walk in the Lord’s guiding light.* |
2:6 | Indeed, O Lord,* you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere;* they consult omen readers like the Philistines do.* Plenty of foreigners are around.* |
2:7 | Their land is full of gold and silver; there is no end to their wealth.* Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.* |
2:8 | Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship* the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned. |
2:9 | Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship.* Don’t spare them!* |
2:10 | Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord,* from his royal splendor! |
2:11 | Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated;* the Lord alone will be exalted* in that day. |
2:12 | Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment,* for* all the high and mighty, for all who are proud – they will be humiliated; |
2:13 | for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so high and mighty, for all the oaks of Bashan;* |
2:14 | for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills,* |
2:15 | for every high tower, for every fortified wall, |
2:16 | for all the large ships,* for all the impressive* ships.* |
2:17 | Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low;* the Lord alone will be exalted* in that day. |
2:18 | The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.* |
2:19 | They* will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground,* trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord* and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.* |
2:20 | At that time* men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship,* into the caves where rodents and bats live,* |
2:21 | so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs,* trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord* and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.* |
2:22 | Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration? |