Isaiah 2

The City of Peace

1 The vision that Isaiah  * 2:1 2Kg 19:2; 20:1; 2Ch 26:22; 32:20; Is 1:1; 13:1 son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2 In  * 2:2–4 Mc 4:1–4; Rm 2:20 the last days  * 2:2 Nm 24:14; Dt 4:30; Ezk 38:16; Hs 3:5

the mountain of the  Lord’s house  * 2:2 2Ch 33:15; Is 27:13; 66:20 will be established

at the top of the mountains

and will be raised above the hills.

All nations will stream to it,  * 2:2 Ps 22:27; Is 56:7; Zch 14:10

3 and many peoples will come and say,

"Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the  Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob.  * 2:3 Is 29:23; 45:23; 60:13; 66:18

He will teach us about his ways

so that we may walk in his paths."

For instruction will go out of Zion

and the word of the  Lord from Jerusalem.

4 He will settle disputes among the nations

and provide arbitration for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into plows

and their spears into pruning knives.  * 2:4 Is 11:6–9; 32:17–18; Jl 3:10

Nation will not take up the sword against nation,

and they will never again train for war.  * 2:4 Ps 72:3,7; Is 9:7; Hs 2:18; Zch 9:10

The Day of the Lord

5 House of Jacob,

come and let’s walk in the  Lord’s light.  * 2:5 Ps 27:1; 43:3

6 For you have abandoned  * 2:6 Dt 31:17; Ps 94:14; Is 1:4 your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of divination from the East

and of fortune-tellers  * 2:6 Lv 19:26; Dt 18:10–14; 2Kg 21:6; 2Ch 33:6; Jr 27:9; Mc 5:12 like the Philistines.  * 2:6 Jdg 14:3; 1Sm 6:2; 2Kg 1:2–6

They are in league  * 2:6 Or They teem, or They partner; Hb obscure with foreigners.

7 Their  * 2:7 Lit Its,* 2:7 = the house of Jacob land is full of silver and gold,

and there is no limit to their treasures;

their land is full of horses,

and there is no limit to their chariots.  * 2:7 Dt 17:17

8 Their land is full of worthless idols;  * 2:8 Is 10:10–11; 19:1–3; 31:7; Jr 2:28

they worship the work of their hands,

what their fingers have made.  * 2:8 Is 41:21–29; 44:9–17

9 So humanity is brought low,

and each person is humbled.

Do not forgive them!  * 2:9 Ex 34:7

10 Go into the rocks  * 2:10 Rv 6:15

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the  Lord* 2:10 1Sm 11:7; 2Ch 14:14; 17:10; 19:7; Is 2:19,21

and from his majestic splendor.  * 2:10 2Th 1:9

11 The pride of mankind  * 2:11 Lit Mankind’s proud eyes will be humbled,  * 2:11 Ps 18:27; Is 2:17; Mc 2:3; 2Co 10:5

and human loftiness will be brought low;

the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

12 For a day belonging to the  Lord of Armies is coming

against all that is proud and lofty,  * 2:12 Mal 4:1

against all that is lifted up — it will be humbled —

13 against all the cedars of Lebanon,  * 2:13 Ps 29:5; Is 14:8; Hs 14:5

lofty and lifted up,

against all the oaks of Bashan,  * 2:13 Ezk 27:6; Zch 11:2

14 against all the high mountains,  * 2:14 Is 40:4

against all the lofty hills,

15 against every high tower,  * 2:15 Is 25:12; Zph 1:16

against every fortified wall,

16 against every ship of Tarshish,  * 2:16 1Kg 10:22; Is 23:1,14; 60:9

and against every splendid sea vessel.

17 The pride of mankind will be brought low,

and human loftiness will be humbled;

the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.  * 2:17 Mt 25:13

18 The worthless idols will vanish completely.

19 People will go into caves in the rocks  * 2:19 Is 2:10

and holes in the ground,

away from the terror of the  Lord

and from his majestic splendor,

when he rises to terrify the earth.  * 2:19 Ps 18:7; Is 13:13; 24:1,19–20; Hg 2:6–7; Heb 12:26

20 On that day people will throw

their worthless idols of silver and gold,  * 2:20 Is 30:22; 31:7

which they made to worship,

to the moles and the bats.

21 They will go into the caves of the rocks

and the crevices in the cliffs,

away from the terror of the  Lord

and from his majestic splendor,  * 2:21 Is 2:10

when he rises to terrify the earth.

22 Put no more trust in a mere human,

who has only the breath in his nostrils.  * 2:22 Ps 39:11; 144:4; 146:3; Jr 17:5; Jms 4:14

What is he really worth?