[1] The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem. [2] It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain
of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the
mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall
flow to it, [3] and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up
to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may
teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall
go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. [4] He shall
judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more. [5] O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of
the LORD. [6] For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob,
because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners. [7] Their land is
filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their
land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. [8]
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made. [9] So man is humbled, and men are
brought low-- forgive them not! [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 haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men
shall be humbled; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. [12] For
the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against
all that is lifted up and high; [13] against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; [14] against all
the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills; [15] against every
high tower, and against every fortified wall; [16] against all the ships of
Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft. [17] And the haughtiness of
man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the
LORD alone will be exalted in that day. [18] And the idols shall utterly
pass away. [19] And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of
the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his
majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. [20] In that day men will cast
forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for
themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, [21] to enter the
caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror
of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify
the earth. [22] Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what
account is he?
