Isaiah Chapter 2

The LORD’s Future Reign

¹ A Message Isaiah Son of Amoz Saw About Judah and Jerusalem

² In the last days, the mountain where the LORD’s Temple is,

            will become the tallest mountain;

      it will rise above the hills,

            and nations everywhere will stream into it.

³ Many nationalities will say,

      “Let’s go up to the LORD’s mountain,

            to the Temple of Jacob’s God,

            so he can teach us his ways

            and we can follow his paths,”

      because the Law will go out from Zion,

            the LORD’s message from Jerusalem.

⁴ He’ll mediate between nations

            and settle disputes between them;

      they’ll hammer their swords into plowshares

            and beat their spears into pruning hooks;

      they won’t fight one another

            or train for war anymore.

Is 2:1-4

Warning About Coming Judgment

⁵ Come, House of Jacob;

         let’s follow the light of the LORD.

⁶ He’s abandoned you

      because practices from the east have filled you;

      you use soothsayers like Philistines;

      you strike bargains with foreigners.

⁷ Your land has lots of silver and gold;

      there’s no limit to your treasures;

you own lots of horses

      and countless chariots.

⁸ Your country is full of idols;

      you worship your own creations,

            what your fingers have made.                        

Is 2:5-8

⁹ So the common people will be humbled,

      important ones abased;

            don’t forgive them.

¹⁰ Get inside caves and hide underground

         from the terror the LORD’s bringing

      and the splendor of his majesty.

¹¹ He’ll abase arrogant people

      and humble haughty ones;

            he alone will be honored then.                    

Is 2:9-11

¹² The LORD of Hosts has set a time for reckoning,

      for everybody that’s proud and arrogant,

      for everybody that’s pompous and aloof

            so they can be abased,

         ¹³for the tall cedars of Lebanon and oaks of Bashan,

         ¹⁴for high mountains and lofty hills,

         ¹⁵for every high tower and fortified wall,

         ¹⁶for the ships of Tarshish and their beautiful crafts.

¹⁷ The LORD will humble the haughty

            and abase the arrogant;

      he alone will be honored then;

                  ¹⁸ idols will disappear.

¹⁹ People will hide in caves in the rocks

      and holes underground

      in anticipation of the terror the LORD’s bringing

            and the splendor of his majesty

            when he takes action that makes the ground quake.

²⁰ At that time, they’ll toss to the moles and bats

                  the silver and gold idols they made to worship;

         ²¹they will hide in the caves in the rocks

         and clefts in the cliffs

            in anticipation of the terror the LORD’s bringing

                  and the splendor of his majesty

                  when he takes action that makes the ground quake.

²² Stop trusting in people who breathe;

      why depend on them?

Is 2:12-22