Isaías 2

The mountain of the house of the LORD

¹This is the word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw about Judah and Jerusalem. ²In days to come, the mountain of the LORD’s house will stand firm, the chief of all the mountains, \q rising high above the hills, \q and the nations will all stream toward it.^{a 3}Peoples in great numbers will set out, saying, “Come, let us climb to the mountain of the LORD, up to the house of Jacob’s God, \q so that he may show us his ways and we may walk on his paths.” \q For instruction will go out from Zion, \q and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.^{bc 4}He will be judge between the nations and settle the cases of many peoples. \q They will hammer their swords into plow blades and their spears into knives for pruning. \q No nation will raise the sword against another, \q and they will no longer learn how to wage war.

⁵House of Jacob, come! \q Let us walk by the light of the LORD. ⁶For you have cast off your people, the house of Jacob, \q because they are crowded with what comes from the east and with soothsayers, as the Philistines are, \q and they strike hands with the sons of foreigners.^{de 7}Silver and gold fill their land, \q and their treasures are beyond counting; \q horses fill their land, \q and their chariots are beyond counting. ⁸Idols fill their land too. \q They worship things their own hands produced, objects shaped by their own fingers. ⁹So humankind sinks low, and each person is put down. \q Do not pardon them!^{fgh 10}Get into the rocks! Bury yourself in the dust, \q away from the dread of the LORD and from his majestic splendor!^{i 11}The arrogant gaze of humankind will be lowered, \q people’s lofty pride will be bent down, \q and on that day the LORD alone will be lifted high.

A day against everything proud

¹²For the LORD of Armies has set a day against everything proud and towering, \q against everything raised high, and it will be brought down, ¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon, high and towering, \q and against all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴against all the towering mountains, \q against all the hills raised high, ¹⁵against every tall tower, \q against every wall built strong, ¹⁶against all the ships of Tarshish, \q and against every splendid vessel.^{j 17}Humankind’s pride will be bent down, \q people’s lofty airs laid low, \q and on that day the LORD alone will be lifted high. ¹⁸As for the idols, they will be gone, every one. ¹⁹People will crawl into caves in the rock and pits in the ground, \q away from the dread of the LORD and from his majestic splendor, \q when he rises up to make the earth shudder. ²⁰On that day people will fling away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, \q made for them to bow down to, \q out to the moles and the bats,^{k 21}so that they can creep into the cracks of the rocks and the crevices of the crags, \q away from the dread of the LORD and from his majestic splendor, \q when he rises up to make the earth shudder. ²²Have done with humankind, who live by a breath in the nostrils, \q for what are they worth?^l